Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith’s slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.

The Delectable Country is an historical novel by the American writer Leland Baldwin (1897-1981) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Whiskey Rebellion is brewing in the 1790s as protagonist David Braddee, aged nineteen, pilots his foster father's keelboat to a difficult landing at the frontier town of Pittsburgh, after a trip up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from New Orleans.

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Antiquity to the Middle Ages : the delicious beginnings -- The Renaissance : printed cookbooks begin -- Elizabethan England : treasures of the good housewives -- 17th-century France : the table of kings -- 17th-century England : the queen's pantry -- 18th -century France : gifts from the provinces -- 18th-century England : the good housewives as authors -- 19th-century France : la cuisine classique -- 19th-century France : every Frenchman dines well -- 19th-century England : the unconquerable English kitchen -- American beginnings : an appetizing heritage -- 19th-century America : sane, sober and delicious -- Late 19th-century America : cooking lessons well learned -- An informal listing of books in the author's own collection -- Index to cookbooks -- Index to recipes.

In this romance of a wealthy young Philadelphian and a chorus girl form a Broadway review, Struthers Burt has taken a broad canvas on which to depict modern American society, and to contrast the mannered social attitudes of Philadelphia aristocray, the swift, elaborate cruelty of stage and studio life in New York, and the serene, powerful beauty of life on a ranch in the mountains of Wyoming--dust jacket.

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