Bibliograph

Recipes for respect, African American meals and meaning, Rafia Zafar

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Recipes for respect, African American meals and meaning, Rafia Zafar

Language

eng

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Recipes for respect

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1052872727

Responsibility statement

Rafia Zafar

Series statement

Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place

Sub title

African American meals and meaning

Summary

"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. [This book] bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream."--Page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction: food as a field of (Black) action -- 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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African American meals and meaning

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