How Barbecue Became American: Literature, Conflict and Hybridity

这项研究的档案包括殖民文学，如《玛格南丽亚·克里斯蒂·美国》和威廉·伯德的期刊，以及内战新闻，《白鲸记》和《金银岛》。所有这些文本都坚持或暗示烧烤起源于美国白人文化。但所有人都把这种食物与野蛮、原始和同类相食联系在一起。后一种联系表明，美国新兴的民族文化，尽管声称自己是烧烤，但在某种程度上仍然意识到这种食物的加勒比起源。通过深入探讨这一矛盾，《烧烤如何成为美国人》对美国白人的出现及其跨种族融合的基础有了新的认识。

This study's archive ranges from colonial literature like 'Magnalia Christi Americana' and the journals of William Byrd to Civil War journalism, 'Moby Dick' and 'Treasure Island'. All these texts insist or imply that barbeque is original to white American culture. But all also associate the food with savagery, primitivism, and cannibalism. These latter associations suggest that America's emergent national culture, despite claiming barbeque for itself, remained at some level conscious of the food's Caribbean provenance. By closely exploring this contradiction, 'How Barbeque Became American' casts new light on the emergence of American whiteness and its basis in inerracial fusion.