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OverviewHow 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah Lawson WelshPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781783486601ISBN 10: 1783486600 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 16 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsFood, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean is one of the most exciting recent additions to Caribbean cultural studies. Focussing on such varied texts as Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings, memoirs, travel accounts and oral histories, Lawson demonstrates the centrality of food in the construction of Caribbean identity-both at home and in the diaspora-and provides novel insights into long-standing debates surrounding the authenticity and commodification of Caribbean culture. -- Henrice Altink, Professor of Modern History and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York Author InformationSarah Lawson Welsh is Associate Professor and Reader in English and Postcolonial Literatures at York St John University, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |