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Food, text and culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
- Title
- Food, text and culture in the Anglophone Caribbean / Sarah Lawson Welsh.
- Author
- Lawson Welsh, Sarah, 1966-
- Publication
- London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 275 pages: illlustrations; 23 cm cm
- Summary
- How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary 'tradition' and 'authenticity' articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, 'Food, Text & Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean' shows how the creation of food and the creation of narrative are intimately linked cultural practices which can tell us much about each other. Historically, Caribbean writers have explored, defined and re-affirmed their different cultural, ethnic, caste, class and gender identities by writing about what, when and how they eat. Images of feeding, feasting, fasting and other food rituals and practices, as articulated in a range of Caribbean writings, constitute a powerful force of social cohesion and cultural continuity. Moreover, food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Famine, feeding and feasting : slave foods, provision grounds and the planters' tables -- White writings : the nineteenth century -- Black hunger and white plenitude : food and social order in two historiographic metafictions -- Caribbean food, writing and identity -- Kitchentalk : Caribbean women talk about food -- Reading the culinary nation : recipes books and Barbados -- "Put some music in your food" : Caribbean food and diaspora.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1355
- ISBN
- 9781783486601
- 1783486600
- 9781783486618
- 1783486619
- LCCN
- 2019003236
- OCLC
- 913610054
- Author
- Lawson Welsh, Sarah, 1966- author.
- Title
- Food, text and culture in the Anglophone Caribbean / Sarah Lawson Welsh.
- Publisher
- London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1355