Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora.
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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.
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JSTOR
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MIL
Stock Number
22573/ctt140049c
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242370
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Title
Culinary fictions.
International Standard Book Number
9781439900772
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cooking, Indic.
English literature-- South Asian authors-- History and criticism.
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.