03294nam 2200697Ia 450 991081146120332120240501011423.01-282-42370-397866124237031-4399-0079-5(CKB)1000000000811367(EBL)449824(OCoLC)607552541(SSID)ssj0000358555(PQKBManifestationID)11305170(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358555(PQKBWorkID)10380930(PQKB)11749026(MiAaPQ)EBC449824(MdBmJHUP)muse15597(Au-PeEL)EBL449824(CaPaEBR)ebr10356743(CaONFJC)MIL242370(EXLCZ)99100000000081136720090427d2009 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrCulinary fictions food in South Asian diasporic culture /Anita Mannur1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Pressc20091 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4399-0078-7 1-4399-0077-9 Includes bibliographical references 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.For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions 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 evokes not only the character'sFood in literatureFood habits in literatureSouth Asians in literatureCooking, IndicEnglish literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismFood in literature.Food habits in literature.South Asians in literature.Cooking, Indic.English literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.820.9/3564Mannur Anita768610MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811461203321Culinary fictions1565868UNINA