Culinary fictions : food in South Asian diasporic culture / Anita Mannur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mannur, Anita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in literature.

Food habits in literature.

South Asians in literature.

Cooking, Indic.

English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows use to describe Indians abroad. When an immigrant mother in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake combines Rice Krispies, Planters peanuts, onions, salt, lemon juice, and green chili peppers to create a dish similar to one found on Calcutta sidewalks, it evokes not only the character's

Contents:

Nostalgia, domesticity and gender

Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism and diaspora

Feeding desire: food, domesticity and challenges to hetero-

Patriarchy

Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique

Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity

Visualizing class critique and female labor

Theorizing fusion in America

Eating America: culture, race and food in the social imaginary of the

Second generation

Easy exoticism: culinary performances of indianness

Conclusion: room for more: multiculturalism's culinary legacies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612423703

9781282423701

1282423703

9781439900796

1439900795

OCLC:

607552541

Publisher Number:

heb40327 hdl