Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

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has it and who needs it--as a metaphor for race relations in America. Ever 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.

Author: Andrew Warnes · Original publisher: University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA, 2004)

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