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Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
出版Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2025-01-15
主題Cooking / Essays & NarrativesSocial Science / Agriculture & FoodLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricSocial Science / Regional StudiesSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN14968548109781496854810
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zuE3EQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, the cookbook tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative of the region is often one of pain, loss, privation, exploitation, poverty, and suffering of various kinds. While some cookbook writers go to great lengths to avoid reminding readers of this painful past, others invoke that pain as a marker of southern authenticity. Still others use stories of southern suffering as an opportunity to make space for reconciliation, reparation, or apology for past wrongs.

In Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks, author Carrie Helms Tippen attempts to understand the unique rhetorical situation of the southern cookbook as it negotiates a tension between the expectations of the genre and the prevailing metanarratives of the southern experience, one focused on pleasure and the other rooted in pain. Through an analysis of commercially published “southern” cookbooks from the 1990s to the present, Tippen examines the range of rhetorical purposes and strategies writers have employed, some of which undermine the reality of a painful past and cause harm or violence, and others which serve as tools for truth and reconciliation.