Title

Food Discourse: the Communicative Gateway toward Understanding Formerly Colonized Representation in Parts Unknown

Author

Mitch Combs, Illinois State UniversityFollow

Date of Award

3-30-2018

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

School of Communication

First Advisor

Joseph P. Zompetti

Abstract

CNN’s television series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, merges food and travel genres to communicate representations of local, indigenous, and other formerly colonized cultures. This thesis will present the significance of Parts Unknown through a review of literature that concerns postcolonial theory and food discourse to which critical insights emerge and explain how indigenous cultures are represented within Western “foodie” television. These insights will then guide a postcolonial investigation of the food rhetoric used to represent/discuss colonized and local groups within three episodes of Parts Unknown. Additionally, potential applications for rhetorical criticism are discussed by using Parts Unknown as an example for scholars interested in conducting postcolonial media analyses.

Comments

Imported from ProQuest Combs_ilstu_0092N_11166.pdf

Recommended Citation

Combs, Mitch, "Food Discourse: the Communicative Gateway toward Understanding Formerly Colonized Representation in Parts Unknown" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 850.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/850

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2018.Combs.M

Page Count

112