Food Text And Culture In The Anglophone Caribbean

Author : Sarah Lawson Welsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783486625

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Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by Sarah Lawson Welsh Pdf

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.

Author : Lynn M. Houston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313062278

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Food Culture in the Caribbean by Lynn M. Houston Pdf

Food in the Caribbean reflects both the best and worst of the Caribbean's history. On the positive side, Caribbean culture has been compared with a popular stew there called callaloo. The stew analogy comes from the many different ethic groups peacefully maintaining their traditions and customs while blending together, creating a distinct new flavor. On the negative side, many foods and cooking techniques derive from a history of violent European conquest, the importation of slaves from Africa, and the indentured servitude of immigrants in the plantation system. Within this context, students and other readers will understand the diverse island societies and ethnicities through their food cultures. Some highlights include the discussion of the Caribbean concept of making do—using whatever is on hand or can be found—the unique fruits and starches, the one-pot meal, the technique of jerking meat, and the preference for cooking outdoors. The Caribbean is known as the cradle of the Americas. The Columbian food exchange, which brought products from the Caribbean and the Americas to the rest of the world, transformed global food culture. Caribbean food culture has wider resonance to North, Central, and South America as well. The parallels in the food-related evolution in the Americas include the early indigenous foods and agriculture; the import and export of foods; the imported food culture of colonizers, settlers, and immigrants; the intricacies of defining an independent national food culture; the loss of the traditional agricultural system; the trade issues sparked by globalization; and the health crises prompted by the growing fast-food industry. This thorough overview of island food culture is an essential component in understanding the Caribbean past and present.

Author : Candice Goucher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317517337

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Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food by Candice Goucher Pdf

Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements. This book traces the pathways of migrants and travellers and the mixing of their cultures in the Caribbean from the Atlantic slave trade to the modern tourism economy. As an object of cultural exchange and global trade, food offers an intriguing window into this world. The many topics covered in the book include foodways, Atlantic history, the slave trade, the importance of sugar, the place of food in African-derived religion, resistance, sexuality and the Caribbean kitchen, contemporary Caribbean identity, and the politics of the new globalisation. The author draws on archival sources and European written descriptions to reconstruct African foodways in the diaspora and places them in the context of archaeology and oral traditions, performance arts, ritual, proverbs, folktales, and the children's song game "Congotay." Enriching the presentation are sixteen recipes located in special boxes throughout the book.

Author : Hanna Garth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Food
ISBN : 1350042161

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Food and Identity in the Caribbean by Hanna Garth Pdf

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107090668

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The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 by Edward Larrissy Pdf

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030912895

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Decolonising the Literature Curriculum by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.

Author : Anne-Marie Evans,Kaley Kramer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030559618

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Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination by Anne-Marie Evans,Kaley Kramer Pdf

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.

Author : Cristine MacKie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-21
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9781561310647

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Life and Food in the Caribbean by Cristine MacKie Pdf

Beneath the brilliant tropical umbrella stretching from Trinidad to Jamaica, many different peoples have settled over the centuries and developed a vibrant hybrid culture and cuisine. Drawing extensively upon original sources, such as diaries, letters and household accounts, as well as on her own personal experience of the islands' kitchens, Cristine MacKie builds up a fascinating portrait of these displaced people. She gives us an insight into their everyday lives, their cultural and culinary traditions and how they adapted to their new environment. Woven into this evocative account of the Caribbean, past and present, are more than 100 recipes. This book is an invaluable source of reference for the Western cook, and an inspirational guide for the traveller.

Author : Keja L. Valens
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781978829565

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Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence by Keja L. Valens Pdf

Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures, and transformed tastes for independence into flavors of domestic autonomy. Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence integrates new documents into the Caribbean archive and presents them in a rare pan-Caribbean perspective. The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive that Culinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean.

Author : Wiebke Beushausen,Anne Brüske,Ana-Sofia Commichau,Patrick Helber,Sinah Kloß
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839426920

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Caribbean Food Cultures by Wiebke Beushausen,Anne Brüske,Ana-Sofia Commichau,Patrick Helber,Sinah Kloß Pdf

»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of »authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism. The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.

Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antilles, Lesser
ISBN : 1452948178

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The Tropics Bite Back by Valérie Loichot Pdf

The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing-from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises-signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Unlike previous scholars, Valérie Loichot does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel.

Author : Peter Ingrasselino
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0464408229

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Food of Culture Caribbean World by Peter Ingrasselino Pdf

Food of Culture "Caribbean World" is part of a serious of cookbooks by Chef and Author Peter Ingrasselino from his travels around the world

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cooking
ISBN : IND:30000095654822

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Jamaican Food by B. W. Higman Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book by one of the Caribbean's preeminent historians sheds new light on food and cultural practices in Jamaica from the time of the earliest Taino inhabitants through the 21st century.

Author : Peter Ingrasselino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0464408237

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Food of Culture Caribbean World by Peter Ingrasselino Pdf

Food of Culture "Caribbean World" is part of a serious of cookbooks by Chef and Author Peter Ingrasselino from his travels around the world

Author : Lucy Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381182

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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by Lucy Evans Pdf

This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.