Culinary Fictions - Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Anita Mannur
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9781439900772
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0077-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies