Description 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.
About the Author Sarah Lawson Welsh is Associate Professor and Reader in English and Postcolonial Literatures at York St John University, UK..
Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of Food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.
Moreover, Food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts.
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.
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.
Description 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
