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

Rosalyn Collings Eves

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Rhetoric and Communication Studies Race, History, and American Society Memory, History, Trauma, Identity

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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.

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