Kitchens of Southern Illinois
Author: Sheila Bengtson
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 96
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Author: Sheila Bengtson
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorothy Yin-Yee Tse
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Derek N. Otsuji
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 0809338416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReimagining the elusive American dream In The Kitchen of Small Hours, Derek N. Otsuji embraces the fragility and endurance of a family of immigrants from two prefectures in Japan: Kagoshima in the south and Okinawa, an island more than four hundred miles from the mainland. In these poems, five generations sing, save, scold, bury, and cook against the culture and history that emerged from the pineapple and sugar cane plantations of mid-nineteenth-century Hawaii, from the bomb-scapes and hatreds of World War II, and from the canning and tourism industry of the twentieth century. Otsuji writes of how his family used stories and rugged cheer to fill the spaces apart from the cane fields and the canning factory. Their recipes, rituals, celebrations, songs, dances, myths, and family stories passed from grandmother to father to son, who folds them into lyrics. Here too are whispers, failures, and traceable absences: a face removed from photos, a love silenced to be acceptable, a dead firstborn housed in an urn. There are things that no one intended to give. Otsuji’s language hungers for them anyway. The haunting reunions between author and ancestor sink just as deep as roots and hold just as fast. The cooking pot, the family photo, the moon recur as images that feed and comfort. Lyrical and warm, Otsuji’s voice sounds out a sinew of words that make the remnants of heritage and home durable. In these poems each new generation seeks to reimagine for itself the elusive American Dream
Author: Southern Illinois Penitentiary (Chester, Ill.)
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 1380
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Publisher: Oxford Symposium
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1903018471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Symposium on Food on Cookery is a premier English conference on this topic. The subjects range from the food of medieval English and Spanish Jews; wild boar in Europe; the identity of liquamen and other Roman sauces; the production of vinegar in the Philippines; the nature of Indian restaurant food; and food in 19th century Amsterdam.
Author: Nikki Silva
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2005-10-21
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781594863134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume based on the popular NPR radio series explores how communities come together through food, combining popular stories from the show with new interviews, photographs, and recipes from a wide array of atypical kitchens.
Author: Dorothy Chansky
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1609383761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women’s sphere. But there is more to the genre than even its supporters suggest. In analyzing kitchen sink realisms, Dorothy Chansky reveals the ways that food preparation, domestic labor, dining, serving, entertaining, and cleanup saturate the lives of dramatic characters and situations even when they do not take center stage. Offering resistant readings that rely on close attention to the particular cultural and semiotic environments in which plays and their audiences operated, she sheds compelling light on the changing debates about women’s roles and the importance of their household labor across lines of class and race in the twentieth century. The story begins just after World War I, as more households were electrified and fewer middle-class housewives could afford to hire maids. In the 1920s, popular mainstream plays staged the plight of women seeking escape from the daily grind; African American playwrights, meanwhile, argued that housework was the least of women’s worries. Plays of the 1930s recognized housework as work to a greater degree than ever before, while during the war years domestic labor was predictably recruited to the war effort—sometimes with gender-bending results. In the famously quiescent and anxious 1950s, critiques of domestic normalcy became common, and African American maids gained a complexity previously reserved for white leading ladies. These critiques proliferated with the re-emergence of feminism as a political movement from the 1960s on. After the turn of the century, the problems and comforts of domestic labor in black and white took center stage. In highlighting these shifts, Chansky brings the real home.
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 292
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Total Pages: 135
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