03508nam 22005295 450 991030003060332120200705225649.03-319-96442-910.1007/978-3-319-96442-3(CKB)4100000007003139(MiAaPQ)EBC5553287(DE-He213)978-3-319-96442-3(PPN)240247655(EXLCZ)99410000000700313920181011d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction Consuming Passions, Unpalatable Truths /by Paul Vlitos1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (334 pages)3-319-96441-0 1. Introduction: Ways of Reading a Meal -- 2. ‘Our Little Bastard World’: Food, History and Identity in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul -- 3. ‘It was Actually Wonderful to See What Fertile Ground the Dining Table was for Discussion and Debate’: Food, Gender and Culture in the Novels of Anita Desai -- 4. Stereotypes, Family Values, and Chop Suey: Food, Authority and Authenticity in the Novels of Timothy Mo -- 5. The Chutnification of History and the Limits of Gastronomic Pluralism: Food, Identity and the Commodification of Culture in the Novels of Salman Rushdie -- 6. Conclusion.This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and gender are enacted. Drawing upon a variety of academic fields and disciplines — including postcolonial theory, historical research, food studies and recent attempts to rethink the concept of world literature — it dedicates a chapter to each author, tracing the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which their texts are located and exploring the ways in which food and the act of eating acquire meanings and how those meanings might clash, collide and be disputed. Not only does this book offer suggestive new readings of the work of its four key authors, but it challenges the reader to consider the significance of food in postcolonial fiction more generally.Literature   Literature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature, Modern—21st centuryComparative literaturePostcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Contemporary Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000Comparative Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/811000Literature   .Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature, Modern—21st century.Comparative literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Contemporary Literature.Comparative Literature.823.03Vlitos Paulauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut987538BOOK9910300030603321Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction2257525UNINA