Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

Informationen zum Autor Anita Mannur is Assistant Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Klappentext Anita Mannur is Assistant Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Zusammenfassung An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Food MattersPART I: Nostalgia, Domesticity, and Gender 1. Culinary Nostalgia: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Diaspora 2. Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity, and Challenges to HeteropatriarchyPART 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> 5. Eating America: Culture, Race, and Food in the Social Imaginary of the Second Generation 6. Easy Exoticism: Culinary Performances of IndiannessConclusion: Room for More: Multiculturalism’s Culinary Legacies Notes Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anita Mannur
• Edition: Temple University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 25.01.2010
• EAN: 9781439900789
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0078-9
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Thèmes: American Literatures Initiativ; American Literatures Initiativ
• Catégories: Littérature; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée