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This article examines Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes (2004) and Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart (2010) by juxtaposing soul food recipes and memory in the context of black cultural survival, community building and historical circumstances. In her gastrographic writing, cooking, storing and sharing food within African American culinary and literary traditions (recipe books, cookbooks and food memoirs) signify a struggle for black survivance (survival and resistance) against white supremacy, discrimination and stereotypical grand narratives of slavery and Jim Crow years. In this regard, her soul food recipes and cookbooks reflect race, gender and class politics and empower black people with the linguistic power of communicating with their comrades/readers and writing their experiences from the nourishing and safe sphere of kitchens and dinner tables.

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