Food Memoirs: What They Are, Why They Are Popular, and Why They Belong in the Literature Classroom

Autor/in	Waxman, Barbara Frey
Titel	Food Memoirs: What They Are, Why They Are Popular, and Why They Belong in the Literature Classroom
Quelle	In: College English, 70 (2008) 4, S.363-383 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0994
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Literature; Food; Memory; Literary Genres; Writing (Composition); Family (Sociological Unit); Culture; Personal Narratives; Teaching Methods; Mentors; Ethnography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literatur; Lebensmittel; Gedächtnis; Literarische Form; Schreibübung; Familie; Kultur; Erlebniserzählung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ethnografie
Abstract	This essay examines the kind of culinary memoir that chronicles the growth and development of the memoirist through the lens of food memories, in narratives that either begin with childhood or that interpose frequent flashbacks to earliest formative experiences. The author examines some of the key elements of this subgenre of the memoir, this specific literary practice within the general category of food writing. She looks into how authors construct their identities in relation to memory, family, and culture in these texts. How these narratives trace the evolution of identity through food experiences and food symbolism is also an aspect of her exploration. Finally, she considers some potentially powerful effects that this kind of food writing may have on readers, especially students, and argues for the food memoir's place in the literature classroom. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10