“Yes! We Have No Bananas”: Cultural Imaginings of the Banana in America, 1880-1945

My dissertation project explores the ways in which the banana exposes Americans’ interconnected imaginings of exotic food, gender, and race. Since the late nineteenth century, The United Fruit Company’s continuous supply of bananas to US retail markets has veiled the fruit’s production history, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yi-lun
Other Authors: Wood, Mary
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24238