Rhetoric Review Jul 2005

A Recipe for Remembrance: Memory and Identity in African-American Women's Cookbooks

Rosalyn Collings Eves

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2005-07-01
DOI
10.1207/s15327981rr2403_3
Open Access
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