LEADER 03284nam 22005655 450 001 9910300030603321 005 20250123232908.0 010 $a9783319964423 010 $a3319964429 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-96442-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000007003139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5553287 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-96442-3 035 $a(PPN)240247655 035 $a(Perlego)3492912 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007003139 100 $a20181011d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction $eConsuming Passions, Unpalatable Truths /$fby Paul Vlitos 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (334 pages) 311 08$a9783319964416 311 08$a3319964410 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aLiterature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 676 $a823.03 700 $aVlitos$b Paul$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0987538 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300030603321 996 $aEating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction$92257525 997 $aUNINA