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by Andrew Warnes

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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. 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.

What 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 Hunger Overcome? Warnes relates his readings to the wider culture by drawing on such diverse sources as the slave autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Ntozake Shange's cookbook If I Can Cook / You Know God Can, Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake's sociological study Black Metropolis, and Stanley Kramer's film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

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  • Title Hunger Overcome?: Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
  • Author Andrew Warnes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens
  • Publication date 2003-02-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780820325620 / 0820325627
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.44 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 16.36 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - African American, African Americans in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003017585
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.935

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  • Choice, 07/01/2004, Page 2048

About the author

Andrew 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."
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