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- Condition
- Binding
- TP
- EAN
- 9780820325620
- ISBN
- 0820325627
- Book Title
- Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820325627
ISBN-13
9780820325620
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2699740
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Publication Name
Hunger Overcome? : Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Language
English
Subject
American / African American, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-017585
Reviews
"This book is an important text for literary scholars, as well as historians, interested in gaining a better understanding of the complex and varied depictions of food and hunger in African American literature. . . . The topics examined not only illuminate the human condition, but the literary and symbolic relationship between food and the written word."-- Journal of African American History, "Hunger Overcome'is marvelously astute in its attention to textual detail and offers a wealth of new approaches to three canonical writers of the African American literary tradition. It is a valuable addition to the fields of literary criticism and food studies."--Doris Witt, author ofBlack Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity, " Hunger Overcome? is marvelously astute in its attention to textual detail and offers a wealth of new approaches to three canonical writers of the African American literary tradition. It is a valuable addition to the fields of literary criticism and food studies."--Doris Witt, author of Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity, "I relish the idea, more than two hundred years after Phillis Wheatley first published verses linking American liberty and black freedom, that the black pen can ultimately serve to liberate. In that, Warnes and I are truly in concert."--Rafia Zafar, Gastronomica, "This book is an important text for literary scholars, as well as historians, interested in gaining a better understanding of the complex and varied depictions of food and hunger in African American literature. . . . The topics examined not only illuminate the human condition, but the literary and symbolic relationship between food and the written word."--Journal of African American History, "I relish the idea, more than two hundred years after Phillis Wheatley first published verses linking American liberty and black freedom, that the black pen can ultimately serve to liberate. In that, Warnes and I are truly in concert."--Rafia Zafar,Gastronomica
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/3559
Synopsis
This book investigates the juxtaposition of malnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Warnes focuses on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison, and considers how black characters respond to whites' attempts at regulating access to nourishment, whether physical or intellectual., Ever since slaves in America labored to produce food surfeit while enduring personal food shortage, says Andrew Warnes, African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of malnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Focusing on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison, Warnes considers how black characters respond with a wide variety of countermaneuvers to whites' attempts at regulating access to nourishment, whether physical or intellectual. What makes this trope so powerful, Warnes argues, is that it implicitly politicizes hunger, revealing it to be an avoidable, imposed condition. In Hurston's scenes of feasting and plenty in the utopian, all-black community of Eatonville; in Wright's refusal of stale bread and spoiled molasses from his white employer; and in Morrison's depiction of her characters' strategies of pilfering and foraging, we witness the implications of a kind of hunger that could be abolished were it not useful as a means of enforcing acquiescence, dependency, and docility. Throughout Hunger Overcome? Warnes relates his readings to the wider culture by drawing on such diverse sources as the slave autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , Ntozake Shange's cookbook If I Can Cook / You Know God Can , Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake's sociological study Black Metropolis , and Stanley Kramer's film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
LC Classification Number
PS153.N5W346 2003
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