Culinary fictions :

Mannur, Anita.

Culinary fictions : food in south asian diasporic culture Anita Mannur. - New Delhi Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2013 - xiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index.

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.

9781439900772 (cloth : alk. paper) Rs. 795.00 9781439900789 (pbk. : alk. paper) = HSS Fiction

2009017460


Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
South Asians in literature.
Cooking, Indic.
English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

820.93564 M316C



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