Culinary fictions : food in south asian diasporic culture
by
Mannur, Anita
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BookPublisher: New Delhi Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2013Description: xiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781439900772 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781439900789 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Food in literature | Food habits in literature | South Asians in literature | Cooking, Indic | English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticismDDC classification: 820.93564 M316C
Contents:
Nostalgia, domesticity and gender -- Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism and diaspora -- Feeding desire: food, domesticity and challenges to hetero- -- Patriarchy -- Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique -- Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity -- Visualizing class critique and female labor -- Theorizing fusion in America -- Eating America: culture, race and food in the social imaginary of the -- Second generation -- Easy exoticism: culinary performances of indianness -- Conclusion: room for more: multiculturalism's culinary legacies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.
Nostalgia, domesticity and gender -- Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism and diaspora -- Feeding desire: food, domesticity and challenges to hetero- -- Patriarchy -- Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique -- Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity -- Visualizing class critique and female labor -- Theorizing fusion in America -- Eating America: culture, race and food in the social imaginary of the -- Second generation -- Easy exoticism: culinary performances of indianness -- Conclusion: room for more: multiculturalism's culinary legacies.
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