Consuming Memories
Food and Childhood in Postbellum Plantation Memoirs and Reminiscences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12799397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Anderson (0000-0001-6086-1716, Swansea University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-461 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-8014 • E-ISSN: 1751-7443 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15528014.2017.1288800 |
| OpenAlex | W2616699580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
The nostalgia created by and within postbellum plantation memoirs and reminiscences has been little explored. Through scrutinizing the usefulness of nostalgia as a lens through which to focus critical thinking on the construction, uses, and maintenance of individual and collective memory, this article uses this genre of autobiographical life writing to outline assumptions about the Old South plantation imaginary, its kitchens and cooks, as well as the presentation of food and its preparation. By exploring the ways in which memories of food and happy childhood days were used to codify nostalgic forms of the antebellum era, the article contends that food played an important symbolic role in framing and reflecting power relations and patriarchal authority as the Old South gave way to the New
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Autobiographical memory · Childhood memory · Cognition · Collective memory · Framing (construction · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Power (physics · Presentation (obstetrics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
The Past is a Foreign Country
Yearning for yesterday
The mystic chords of memory
Closer to freedom
The Black image in the white mind
Within the plantation household
Roll, Jordan, roll
Down by the riverside
Stranded in the Present
Away Down South
Clinging to Mammy
Nostalgia and the shapes of history
Back of the Big House
Hog Meat and Hoecake
Mystic Chords of Memory
The New South Creed
Writing the South
Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South
Down by the Riverside
Writing the South
Memorials of a Southern Planter
Race and Reunion
Imagined communities
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |