Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food

Warnes, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0820331090 / ISBN 13: 9780820331096

Edité par University of Georgia Press (edition Illustrated), 2008

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food
• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press (edition Illustrated)
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820331090
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820331096
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Illustrated.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Barbecue is a word that means different things to different people. It can be a verb or a noun. It can be pulled pork or beef ribs. And, especially in the American South, it can cause intense debate and stir regional pride. Perhaps, then, it is no surprise that the roots of this food tradition are often misunderstood. In Savage Barbecue, Andrew Warnes traces what he calls America's first food through early transatlantic literature and culture. Building on the work of scholar Eric Hobsbawm, Warnes argues that barbecue is an invented tradition, much like Thanksgiving-one long associated with frontier mythologies of ruggedness and relaxation. Starting with Columbus's journals in 1492, Warnes shows how the perception of barbecue evolved from Spanish colonists' first fateful encounter with natives roasting iguanas and fish over fires on the beaches of Cuba. European colonists linked the new food to a savagery they perceived in American Indians, ensnaring barbecue in a growing web of racist attitudes about the New World. Warnes also unearths the etymological origins of the word barbecue, including the early form barbacoa; its coincidental similarity to barbaric reinforced emerging stereotypes. Barbecue, as it arose in early transatlantic culture, had less to do with actual native practices than with a European desire to define those practices as barbaric. Warnes argues that the word barbecue retains an element of violence that can be seen in our culture to this day. Savage Barbecue offers an original and highly rigorous perspective on one of America's most popular food traditions.

À propos de l'auteur

ANDREW WARNES is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Leeds University. He is the author of Hunger Overcome? (Georgia) and Richard Wright's Native Son.