{"product_id":"hunger-overcome-food-and-resistance-in-twentieth-century-african-american-literature-9780820325620","title":"Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since slaves in America labored to produce food surfeit while enduring personal food shortage, says Andrew Warnes, African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of malnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Focusing on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison, Warnes considers how black characters respond with a wide variety of countermaneuvers to whites' attempts at regulating access to nourishment, whether physical or intellectual. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat makes this trope so powerful, Warnes argues, is that it implicitly politicizes hunger, revealing it to be an avoidable, imposed condition. In Hurston's scenes of feasting and plenty in the utopian, all-black community of Eatonville; in Wright's refusal of stale bread and spoiled molasses from his white employer; and in Morrison's depiction of her characters' strategies of pilfering and foraging, we witness the implications of a kind of hunger that could be abolished were it not useful as a means of enforcing acquiescence, dependency, and docility. Throughout \u003ci\u003eHunger Overcome?\u003c\/i\u003e Warnes relates his readings to the wider culture by drawing on such diverse sources as the slave autobiography \u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass\u003c\/i\u003e, Ntozake Shange's cookbook \u003ci\u003eIf I Can Cook \/ You Know God Can\u003c\/i\u003e, Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake's sociological study \u003ci\u003eBlack Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e, and Stanley Kramer's film \u003ci\u003eGuess Who's Coming to Dinner?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Warnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.44w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820325620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 2048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Warnes is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Leeds University. He is the author of \"Hunger Overcome?,\" \"Savage Barbecue,\" (both Georgia), and \"Richard Wright's Native Son.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40202807115891,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_68658c55-0dd1-4c9e-9815-92ddc0e83d1d.jpg?v=1656252794","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/hunger-overcome-food-and-resistance-in-twentieth-century-african-american-literature-9780820325620","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}