Anita Mannur

Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• American Litera
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781439900772
• ISBN-10: 1439900779
• Artikelnr.: 26826470

Autorenporträt

Anita Mannur is Assistant Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at Miami University of Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Food Matters
PART I: Nostalgia, Domesticity, and Gender 
1. Culinary Nostalgia: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Diaspora 
2. Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity, and Challenges to Heteropatriarchy
PART II: Palatable Multiculturalisms and Class Critique 
3. Sugar and Spice: Sweetening the Taste of Alterity 
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Visualizing Class Critique and Female Labor
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5. Eating America: Culture, Race, and Food in the Social Imaginary of the
Second Generation 
6. Easy Exoticism: Culinary Performances of Indianness
Conclusion: Room for More: Multiculturalism’s Culinary Legacies 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index