Research Catalog

Title

Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways / edited by David A. Davis, Tara Powell ; foreword by Jessica B. Harris.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, David A. (David Alexander), 1975-
• Powell, Tara, 1976-

Description

xi, 245 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections between them have not been thoroughly explored until now. Southern food has become the subject of increasingly self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues of Oxford American and Southern Cultures, and a spate of new scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. Writing in the Kitchen explores the relationship between food and literature and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely. This collection examines food writing in a range of literary expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels, stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use food to explore the changing South, considering the ways race, ethnicity, class, gender, and region affect how and what people eat. They describe foods from specific southern places such as New Orleans and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South, and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they manifest through the written word"--
• "Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections between them have not been throughly explored until now. Southern food has become the subject of increasingly self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issue of Oxford American and Southern Cultures, and a spate of new scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. Writing in the Kitchen explores the relationship between food and literature and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely. This collection examines food writing in a range of literary expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels, stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use food to explore the changing South, considering the ways race, ethnicity, class, gender, and region affect how and what people eat. They describe foods from specific southern places such as New Orleans and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South, and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they manifest through the written word"--

Subjects

• American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
• Food in literature
• Food > Southern States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-7490

ISBN

• 9781628460230 (hardback)
• 1628460237 (hardback)

LCCN

2014005433

OCLC

861671296

Title

Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways / edited by David A. Davis, Tara Powell ; foreword by Jessica B. Harris.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Davis, David A. (David Alexander), 1975- editor.

Powell, Tara, 1976- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7490