Hunger Overcome? by Andrew Warnes

Hunger Overcome? by Andrew Warnes

African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of mulnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing.

Hunger Overcome? is marvelously astute in its attention to textual detail and offers a wealth of new approaches to three canonical writers of the African American literary traditionIt is a valuable addition to the fields of literary criticism and food studies.

-- Doris Witt * author of Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity *

This book is an important text for literary scholars, as well as historians, interested in gaining a better understanding of the complex and varied depictions of food and hunger in African American literature. . . . The topics examined not only illuminate the human condition, but the literary and symbolic relationship between food and the written word.

-- Journal of African American History

I relish the idea, more than two hundred years after Phillis Wheatley first published verses linking American liberty and black freedom, that the black pen can ultimately serve to liberate. In that, Warnes and I are truly in concert.

-- Rafia Zafar * Gastronomica *

ANDREW WARNES is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Leeds University. He is the author of Hunger Overcome? (Georgia) and Richard Wright's Native Son.

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ISBN 13	9780820325620
ISBN 10	0820325627
Title	Hunger Overcome?
Author	Andrew Warnes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2004-02-26
Number of pages	232
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