Culinary fictions
food in South Asian diasporic culture
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Author
Publication
2009 - Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
63,750 words, Guess
Page Count
255 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveculinaryfictions0000mann
- ISBN-101439900779
- ISBN-139781439900772
- ISBN-139781439900789
- ISBN-101439900787
and 7 more
- Goodreads6905980
- LibraryThing9607558
- Library of Congress Control Number2009017460
- OCLC Control Number319501438
- Better World Books9781439900789
- Better World Books9781439900772
- Open LibraryOL23218388M
Classifications
- DDC820.9/3564
- LCCPN56.F59 M36 2009
- LCCPN56.F59 M36 2010
and 1 more
- LCCPN56.F59M36 2009
Description
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined. This book 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 not only evokes the character's Americanization, but also her nostalgia for India. Food, Anita Mannur writes, is a central part of the cultural imagination of diasporic populations. Mannur examines the cultural production from the Anglo-American reaches of the South Asian diaspora. Using texts from novels - Chitra Divakaruni's "Mistress of Spices", and Shani Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night" - to cookbooks such as Madhur Jaffrey's "Invitation to Indian Cooking" and Padma Lakshmi's "Easy Exotic", she illustrates how national identities are consolidated in culinary terms.
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