The Raw, the Cooked, and the Scavenged: Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild

This article examines the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern wild in the light of intersectional feminism, specifically in terms of how scavenging, a key biological process, complicates the traditional concerns of environmentalism, critical race studies, feminism, and food politics. Using bell hooks' reading of the film as a point of engagement, it advocates for more attention to scavenging in the conjoined discourses of contemporary ecocriticism and social justice movements.