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Recipes for Respect by Rafia Zafar

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Scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. This book bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture and the contributions of Black cooks to what has been considered the mainstream.

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Recipes for Respect by Rafia Zafar

Scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. This book bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture and the contributions of Black cooks to what has been considered the mainstream.

RAFIA ZAFAR is a professor of English, African and African American studies, and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as faculty director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. Her previous publications include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760–1870 and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology Harlem Renaissance Fiction.

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ISBN 13 9780820353678
ISBN 10 0820353671
Title Recipes for Respect
Author Rafia Zafar
Series Southern Foodways Alliance Studies In Culture People And Place
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Year published 2019-03-30
Number of pages 168
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.