Culinary fictions : food in South Asian diasporic culture /

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An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mannur, Anita
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
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 criticism.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Sud-Asiatiques dans la littérature.
Cuisine de l'Inde.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs sud-asiatiques > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
Cooking, Indic
English literature > South Asian authors
English literature > Women authors
Food habits in literature
Food in literature
South Asians in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Food matters
  • Nostalgia, domesticity and gender. Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism, and diaspora
  • Feeding desire: food, domesticity, and challenges to heteropatriarchy
  • Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique. Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity
  • Red hot chili peppers: 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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