2005/06/28 by Rosalyn Collings Eves · 53 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Culinary Culture and Tourism #Recipe #Identity (music) #History #Gender studies #Psychology #Sociology #Art #Archaeology #Aesthetics
paper · doi:10.1207/s15327981rr2403_3
published in Rhetoric Review 24(3), 280-297 (Routledge)
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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.