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, LoveAnd War Richard A. Voeltz The new colonialism of Eat, Pray, Love , Salon Eat Pray Love prompts merchandising bonanza, Reuters Eat, Pray, Love, Bh Media 00:00 Intro 4:45 1) Cry an emotional shift 11:45 2) Eat the act of indulgence 21:05 3) Pray the pitfalls of detachment 30:30 4) Spend commercializing spirituality 44:10 5) Love the illusion of transformation