Introduction to and Bibliography for the Study of Alimentary Life Writing and Recipe Writing as War Literature

Abstract

In her article Introduction to and Bibliography for the Study of Alimentary Life Writing and Recipe Writing as War Literature Louise O. Vasvari defines the concept of life and locates it in the broader multidisciplinary context of alimentary history, the history of everyday life, gender studies, trauma, and war and holocaust studies. She also underlines and exemplifies the cultural and gendered significance of alimentary life writing in particular in grounding personal and collective identity formation in the female immigrant and ethnic and multicultural writing. Vasvari also compares and contrasts such life writing to wartime food memoirs, as well as to communal wartime food talk and recipe writing as a tool of survival by inmates in prisoner-of-war and in concentration