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Alimentary tracts : appetites, aversions, and the postcolonial / Parama Roy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Parama.
- Series:
- Next wave.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism--India.
- Postcolonialism.
- British--India--History.
- British.
- Food habits--Political aspects--India.
- Food habits.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Disgust : food, filth, and Anglo-Indian flesh in 1857
- Abstinence : manifestos on meat and masculinity
- Dearth : figures of famine
- Appetite : spices redux.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613251886
- 9780822393146
- 082239314X
- 9781283251884
- 1283251884
- OCLC:
- 1139366705
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