Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence (Critical Caribbean Studies) - Softcover

Valens, Keja L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197882954X ISBN 13: 9781978829541

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.
 

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About the Author

KEJA VALENS is a professor of English at Salem State University. She has published numerous works on Caribbean literature, women’s history, sexuality and diasporic identity, including the books Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature and Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 197882954X
• ISBN 13: 9781978829541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504