Eat Pray Love: A Nuanced Critique | Video Essay

In this video, I discuss the 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (and the 2010 film starring Julia Roberts) and why so many people both hate and love it. Sources: Confessions of a Seduction Addict | The New York Times Eat Pray Love: Producing the Neoliberal Female Spiritual Subject - Ruth Williams After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and cartographies of salvation - Rumya Sree Putcha Eat, Pray, Love—And War - Richard A. Voeltz The new colonialism of “Eat, Pray, Love“ | Salon “Eat Pray Love“ prompts merchandising bonanza | Reuters