Alimentary Tracts - Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial

Informationen zum Autor Parama Roy Klappentext "This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It should be of great interest to historians of colonialism, of cuisine and of the affective practices through which the colony--and the post-colony--produce their effects. It is beautifully and forcefully written, thus itself a sensory bonus for the reader."--Arjun Appadurai, New York University Zusammenfassung Interpreting South Asian and diasporic texts! Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom! who starves! and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire! decolonization! and globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknoledgments Introduction 1. Disgust: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857 2. Abstinence: Manifestos on Meat and Masculinity 3. Dearth: Figures of Famine Appetite: Spices Redux Remains: A Coda Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Parama Roy
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.11.2010
• EAN: 9780822348023
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4802-3
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro