Recipes for respect : African American meals and meaning /

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"Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a small tributary. Recipes for Respect fills this lac...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zafar, Rafia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Series:Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place.
Subjects:
African Americans > Food.
Food habits > United States.
African American cooking.
Noirs américains > Alimentation.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Cuisine noire américaine.
COOKING > General.
COOKING > History.
African American cooking
Food habits
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Recipes for respect : Black men's hospitality books
  • Born a slave, died a chef : slave narratives and the beginnings of culinary memoir
  • "There is probably no subject more important than the study of food" : George Washington Carver's food movement
  • Civil rights and commensality : meals and meaning in Ernest Gaines, Anne Moody, and Alice Walker
  • The signifying dish : autobiography and history in two black women's cookbooks
  • Elegy or Sankofa? : Edna Lewis's taste of country cooking and the question of genre
  • The Negro cooks up his past : Arturo Schomburg's uncompleted cookbook.

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