Black Hunger - Food and the Politics of Us Identity

Zusatztext An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience. Klappentext Black Hunger looks how association of the African American women with food has helped structure twentieth-century U.S. psychic! cultural! sociopolitical! and economic life. Taking as her main focus .the debates over the authenticity of soul food during the tumultuous era of the late 1960's and early 1970's! Doris Witt locates complex practices of black intraracial othering in relation to an ongoing narrative of white fascination with black culture. Zusammenfassung The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African-American women and food. This work demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic in 20th-century America.

Product details

• Authors: Doris Witt, Doris (Assistant Professor of English Witt, Witt Doris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780195110623
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511062-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Race and American Culture; Race and American Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies, gender groups, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General