Jean Duruz, Gaik Cheng Khoo

Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's "different" culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity.

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Produktdetails

• Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9781442227408
• ISBN-10: 1442227400
• Artikelnr.: 41239330

Autorenporträt

By Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Making Rojak ... or Eating "Together-in-Difference"? 1:
Kopitiam: In Search of Cosmopolitan Spaces and Meanings in Malaysia 2:
Spreading the Toast of Memory: From Hainanese Kopitiams to Boutique Coffee
Shops in Singapore 3: "Mamak, Anyone?": Tamil Muslim Eateries in Malaysia
4: Growing up Transnational: Travelling through Singapore's Hawker Centers
5: Dumplings at Changi: Singapore's Urban Villages as Spaces of Exchange
and Re-invention 6: The Little Nyonya and Peranakan Chinese Identity:
Between Commodification and Cosmopolitanism 7: Currying the Nation: A Song
and Dance about Multiculturalism Bibliography Index About the Authors