Kij i marchewka – pożywienie jako narzędzie kontroli w narracjach niewolników
Carrot and Stick – Food as a Tool of Control in Slave Narratives

Author(s): Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: food; violence; slavery
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to trace the role of food as a tool of violence in shaping the relations between white plantation owners and their black slaves in the southern states of the USA. The subject of the analysis has been the use of food in a clash of oppressive domination of white people with disobedience of black slaves, both in “white” residences and in “black” huts. Slave narratives, published after the abolition of slavery, as well as interviews with former slaves conducted in 1930s within the scope of The Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Writers’ Project serve as a corpus for the analysis of methods of using food as a tool for controlling slaves that can be traced in literature.

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