Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780367886851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Jonathan Highfield

Opis

The African continent is home to thousands of cultures, but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery, transcontinental trade, and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterationsas seen through African narrati

Spis treści

1.Introduction

2. Food and the Epic

3. Food and Labor

4. Food and Sustainability

5. Food and Violence

6. Food and Global Capital

7. Food and Exile

O autorze

Jonathan Bishop Highfield is a Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of Literary Arts and Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA.