| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Food matters -- Nostalgia, domesticity and gender. Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism, and diaspora -- Feeding desire: food, domesticity, and challenges to heteropatriarchy -- Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique. Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity -- Red hot chili peppers: 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 |
| Summary |
An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Food in literature.
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Food habits in literature.
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South Asians in literature.
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Cooking, Indic.
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English literature -- South Asian authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
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Cooking, Indic
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English literature -- South Asian authors
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English literature -- Women authors
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Food habits in literature
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Food in literature
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South Asians in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009017460 |
| ISBN |
9781439900796 |
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1439900795 |
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