LEADER 03297nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910778540903321 005 20230721023128.0 010 $a1-282-42370-3 010 $a9786612423703 010 $a1-4399-0079-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000811367 035 $a(EBL)449824 035 $a(OCoLC)607552541 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358555 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305170 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358555 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10380930 035 $a(PQKB)11749026 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC449824 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL449824 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10356743 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242370 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000811367 100 $a20090427d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulinary fictions$b[electronic resource] $efood in South Asian diasporic culture /$fAnita Mannur 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4399-0078-7 311 $a1-4399-0077-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNostalgia, 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. 330 $aFor 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's 606 $aFood in literature 606 $aFood habits in literature 606 $aSouth Asians in literature 606 $aCooking, Indic 606 $aEnglish literature$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aFood in literature. 615 0$aFood habits in literature. 615 0$aSouth Asians in literature. 615 0$aCooking, Indic. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/3564 700 $aMannur$b Anita$0768610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778540903321 996 $aCulinary fictions$91565868 997 $aUNINA