581
Views
17
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

A Recipe for Remembrance: Memory and Identity in African-American Women's Cookbooks

Pages 280-297 | Published online: 19 Nov 2009
 

Abstract

This essay explores how recipes and associated text validate African-American women's self-image and resist dominant cultural memory in three cookbooks produced by the National Council of Negro Women in the 1990s. The aim is to establish how these cookbooks function rhetorically as memory texts: to memorialize both individuals and community, to invoke "memory beyond mind," and to generate a sense of collective memory that in turn shapes communal memory.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.