Igor Cusack
Biographic Data
| ID | 642220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Igor Cusack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Igor |
| FAMILY NAME | Cusack |
| SIGNATURE | CUSACK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4820-5659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dinner under the camel thorn trees: The safari tourist's travel back in time
Safari holidays are now a major part of the African tourist industry and food has become an essential aspect of the adventure. In the late nineteenth century, rugged imperialist explorers shot and consumed many of the large African animals, while after the First World War, luxury safaris for the rich became the norm. First as gentlemen explorers, and then as guides on hunting safaris, 'Great White Hunters' and their pervasive ideology of muscular…
A dollop of sadza and a bag of mealie meal: Food in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy
This article focuses on the various ways in which food is introduced into three novels by the Zimbabwean writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable Body). A taxonomy of the different ways in which food and meals are used in fiction is presented, and then applied to these novels. Food is employed as a means of setting a scene for the heroine, Tambudzai: living in the rural impoverished homestead of her child…
Food, masculinities, and home. interdisciplinary perspectives
When presented with reviewing an interdisciplinary collection such as this, one might ask how well the varied essays fit into the overarching theme, which here is an exploration of the intersection
From "Peixefritismo" to Yellow-bean Stew: Angolan National Cuisine in the Pot and in the Novel
As part of the ideology of nationalism, every nation is supposed to have a national cuisine. During recent decades, African national cuisines have emerged in a number of states, in particular in Lusophone Africa. Cookbooks on African cuisines have been published in Europe and parts of Africa and the national cuisine proclaimed on official websites. This article reviews the appearance of these cuisines and then focuses on the development of the "n…
The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700: By Rebecca Earle
Cookery Books and Celebrity Chefs: Men's Contributions to National Cuisines in Sub-Saharan Africa
All over Africa, food is mostly grown, cooked and served by women. Women have also been the main compilers of books on African cookery, both in Africa and beyond. This article explores the role of cookery books, written by both women and men, in the definition of national cuisines in Africa. It also considers the role of African men in culinary practices and the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of national cuisines. Cookery bo…
A Tour of African Culinary History
Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps - by Child, J
From Revolution to Reflection: The National Anthems of the New Lusophone Worlds
Os hinos nacionais, tais como as bandeiras, os brasões, os selos e o dinheiro, são elementos simbólicos que fazem parte de um equipamento que acompanha as reivindicações de especificidade de cada nação. As letras dos hinos dos países pós-coloniais podem ser vistos como documentos ilustrativos, já que reflectem as ideologias e preocupações da era da indepêndencia. Os temas mais comuns são apelos ao despertar da nação ou elogios às maravilhas 'únic…
Tiny transmitters of nationalist and colonial ideology: The postage stamps of Portugal and its Empire
Postage stamps may be seen as tiny transmitters of the dominant ideologies of the state destined for the imagined community of the nation. The issuing of stamps, starting in the nineteenth century, and the postal reforms that accompanied this, greatly contributed to the ‘communicative efficiency’ of national communities and made a significant contribution to nation‐building. The imagery of stamps promotes the dominant discourses of a particular n…
Cuisines africaines: Cuisiner La Nation
Ce texte analyse le développement de cuisines africaines en relation avec la construction nationale. De nombreux acteurs sont impliqués : les États et leurs élites, des segments des anciens appareils coloniaux, des écrivains spécialistes de « cuisines ethniques » et de guides touristiques, des auteurs afro-américains, des universitaires africanistes, des expatriés et des membres de la diaspora rentrés ou non au pays, des concepteurs de sites Inte…
African National Anthems: Beat the drums, the red Lion has roared'1
This article explores the themes and ideologies associated with African national anthems. Anthems often reflect the Janus face of nationalism, that is, a looking to the future as well as the past, and they proclaim a number of dominant themes which fit into this dichotomy. Such themes include calls to awake, arise or work for the future progress of the nation, and praise for the already established, beloved land, its particularities, traditions a…
Pots, pens and ‘eating out the body: Cuisine and the gendering of African nations
Whether cooking in a pot in the back yard, or in a modern kitchen, African women have generally prepared food for their men. More recently, they have collated and written cookery books both in the West and in Africa so that the ruling elites, mostly all men, have been able to display their new ‘national cuisines’ on their states’ official websites. This article reviews how ‘national cuisines’ have emerged recently in parts of Africa and then exam…
Nation‐builders at work: The Equatoguinean ‘myth’ of Bantu unity
The ruling elites and nation‐builders of post‐colonial Africa have used whatever materials are available in various attempts to construct national identities. Myths of origin and golden ages, which can be applied to all the people of a given territory, are useful in such projects. In England, Geoffrey of Monmouth's tale linking the English Kings to Troy and Rome became the accepted ‘history’ for some five hundred years. This article examines a my…
African cuisines: Recipes for nationbuilding
Whenever possible, the state, ruling élites and other actors in the postcolonial world have appropriated available cultural material such as literature, music or oral heritage and placed this into a basket labelled 'the national culture.' As part of this process, the emergence of national cuisines has been noted and explored by various writers outside Africa. A 'national cuisine' is often built by appropriating and assembling a variety of regiona…
Being away from ‘home’: The equatorial Guinean Diaspora
Hispanic and Bantu Inheritance, Trauma, Dispersal and Return: Some Contributions to a Sense of National Identity in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish‐speaking state in sub‐Saharan Africa. Since independence in 1968 it has been ruled by the tyrant, Macías Nguema and then from 1979 by his nephew, Obiang Nguema. Over time, the fixed inherited colonial borders may have allowed for the emergence of a sense of national identity, constructed like a collage from different materials. The article explores how the ruling elite has summoned a number of discourses to h…
African cuisines: Recipes for nationbuilding
Whenever possible, the state, ruling élites and other actors in the postcolonial world have appropriated available cultural material such as literature, music or oral heritage and placed this into a basket labelled 'the national culture.' As part of this process, the emergence of national cuisines has been noted and explored by various writers outside Africa. A 'national cuisine' is often built by appropriating and assembling a variety of regiona…
Tiny transmitters of nationalist and colonial ideology: The postage stamps of Portugal and its Empire
Postage stamps may be seen as tiny transmitters of the dominant ideologies of the state destined for the imagined community of the nation. The issuing of stamps, starting in the nineteenth century, and the postal reforms that accompanied this, greatly contributed to the ‘communicative efficiency’ of national communities and made a significant contribution to nation‐building. The imagery of stamps promotes the dominant discourses of a particular n…
African National Anthems: Beat the drums, the red Lion has roared'1
This article explores the themes and ideologies associated with African national anthems. Anthems often reflect the Janus face of nationalism, that is, a looking to the future as well as the past, and they proclaim a number of dominant themes which fit into this dichotomy. Such themes include calls to awake, arise or work for the future progress of the nation, and praise for the already established, beloved land, its particularities, traditions a…
Pots, pens and ‘eating out the body: Cuisine and the gendering of African nations
Whether cooking in a pot in the back yard, or in a modern kitchen, African women have generally prepared food for their men. More recently, they have collated and written cookery books both in the West and in Africa so that the ruling elites, mostly all men, have been able to display their new ‘national cuisines’ on their states’ official websites. This article reviews how ‘national cuisines’ have emerged recently in parts of Africa and then exam…
Hispanic and Bantu Inheritance, Trauma, Dispersal and Return: Some Contributions to a Sense of National Identity in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish‐speaking state in sub‐Saharan Africa. Since independence in 1968 it has been ruled by the tyrant, Macías Nguema and then from 1979 by his nephew, Obiang Nguema. Over time, the fixed inherited colonial borders may have allowed for the emergence of a sense of national identity, constructed like a collage from different materials. The article explores how the ruling elite has summoned a number of discourses to h…
Cookery Books and Celebrity Chefs: Men's Contributions to National Cuisines in Sub-Saharan Africa
All over Africa, food is mostly grown, cooked and served by women. Women have also been the main compilers of books on African cookery, both in Africa and beyond. This article explores the role of cookery books, written by both women and men, in the definition of national cuisines in Africa. It also considers the role of African men in culinary practices and the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of national cuisines. Cookery bo…
A dollop of sadza and a bag of mealie meal: Food in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy
This article focuses on the various ways in which food is introduced into three novels by the Zimbabwean writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable Body). A taxonomy of the different ways in which food and meals are used in fiction is presented, and then applied to these novels. Food is employed as a means of setting a scene for the heroine, Tambudzai: living in the rural impoverished homestead of her child…
Being away from ‘home’: The equatorial Guinean Diaspora
Being away from ‘home’: The equatorial Guinean Diaspora
Hispanic and Bantu Inheritance, Trauma, Dispersal and Return: Some Contributions to a Sense of National Identity in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish‐speaking state in sub‐Saharan Africa. Since independence in 1968 it has been ruled by the tyrant, Macías Nguema and then from 1979 by his nephew, Obiang Nguema. Over time, the fixed inherited colonial borders may have allowed for the emergence of a sense of national identity, constructed like a collage from different materials. The article explores how the ruling elite has summoned a number of discourses to h…
African cuisines: Recipes for nationbuilding
Whenever possible, the state, ruling élites and other actors in the postcolonial world have appropriated available cultural material such as literature, music or oral heritage and placed this into a basket labelled 'the national culture.' As part of this process, the emergence of national cuisines has been noted and explored by various writers outside Africa. A 'national cuisine' is often built by appropriating and assembling a variety of regiona…
Nation‐builders at work: The Equatoguinean ‘myth’ of Bantu unity
The ruling elites and nation‐builders of post‐colonial Africa have used whatever materials are available in various attempts to construct national identities. Myths of origin and golden ages, which can be applied to all the people of a given territory, are useful in such projects. In England, Geoffrey of Monmouth's tale linking the English Kings to Troy and Rome became the accepted ‘history’ for some five hundred years. This article examines a my…
Pots, pens and ‘eating out the body: Cuisine and the gendering of African nations
Whether cooking in a pot in the back yard, or in a modern kitchen, African women have generally prepared food for their men. More recently, they have collated and written cookery books both in the West and in Africa so that the ruling elites, mostly all men, have been able to display their new ‘national cuisines’ on their states’ official websites. This article reviews how ‘national cuisines’ have emerged recently in parts of Africa and then exam…
Tiny transmitters of nationalist and colonial ideology: The postage stamps of Portugal and its Empire
Postage stamps may be seen as tiny transmitters of the dominant ideologies of the state destined for the imagined community of the nation. The issuing of stamps, starting in the nineteenth century, and the postal reforms that accompanied this, greatly contributed to the ‘communicative efficiency’ of national communities and made a significant contribution to nation‐building. The imagery of stamps promotes the dominant discourses of a particular n…
Cuisines africaines: Cuisiner La Nation
Ce texte analyse le développement de cuisines africaines en relation avec la construction nationale. De nombreux acteurs sont impliqués : les États et leurs élites, des segments des anciens appareils coloniaux, des écrivains spécialistes de « cuisines ethniques » et de guides touristiques, des auteurs afro-américains, des universitaires africanistes, des expatriés et des membres de la diaspora rentrés ou non au pays, des concepteurs de sites Inte…
African National Anthems: Beat the drums, the red Lion has roared'1
This article explores the themes and ideologies associated with African national anthems. Anthems often reflect the Janus face of nationalism, that is, a looking to the future as well as the past, and they proclaim a number of dominant themes which fit into this dichotomy. Such themes include calls to awake, arise or work for the future progress of the nation, and praise for the already established, beloved land, its particularities, traditions a…
From Revolution to Reflection: The National Anthems of the New Lusophone Worlds
Os hinos nacionais, tais como as bandeiras, os brasões, os selos e o dinheiro, são elementos simbólicos que fazem parte de um equipamento que acompanha as reivindicações de especificidade de cada nação. As letras dos hinos dos países pós-coloniais podem ser vistos como documentos ilustrativos, já que reflectem as ideologias e preocupações da era da indepêndencia. Os temas mais comuns são apelos ao despertar da nação ou elogios às maravilhas 'únic…
Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps - by Child, J
A Tour of African Culinary History
The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700: By Rebecca Earle
Cookery Books and Celebrity Chefs: Men's Contributions to National Cuisines in Sub-Saharan Africa
All over Africa, food is mostly grown, cooked and served by women. Women have also been the main compilers of books on African cookery, both in Africa and beyond. This article explores the role of cookery books, written by both women and men, in the definition of national cuisines in Africa. It also considers the role of African men in culinary practices and the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of national cuisines. Cookery bo…
From "Peixefritismo" to Yellow-bean Stew: Angolan National Cuisine in the Pot and in the Novel
As part of the ideology of nationalism, every nation is supposed to have a national cuisine. During recent decades, African national cuisines have emerged in a number of states, in particular in Lusophone Africa. Cookbooks on African cuisines have been published in Europe and parts of Africa and the national cuisine proclaimed on official websites. This article reviews the appearance of these cuisines and then focuses on the development of the "n…
Food, masculinities, and home. interdisciplinary perspectives
When presented with reviewing an interdisciplinary collection such as this, one might ask how well the varied essays fit into the overarching theme, which here is an exploration of the intersection
A dollop of sadza and a bag of mealie meal: Food in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy
This article focuses on the various ways in which food is introduced into three novels by the Zimbabwean writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable Body). A taxonomy of the different ways in which food and meals are used in fiction is presented, and then applied to these novels. Food is employed as a means of setting a scene for the heroine, Tambudzai: living in the rural impoverished homestead of her child…
Dinner under the camel thorn trees: The safari tourist's travel back in time
Safari holidays are now a major part of the African tourist industry and food has become an essential aspect of the adventure. In the late nineteenth century, rugged imperialist explorers shot and consumed many of the large African animals, while after the First World War, luxury safaris for the rich became the norm. First as gentlemen explorers, and then as guides on hunting safaris, 'Great White Hunters' and their pervasive ideology of muscular…
Sociology (10 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (9 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Law (6 works)