LEADER 03538nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910961558503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612423703 010 $a9781282423701 010 $a1282423703 010 $a9781439900796 010 $a1439900795 024 7 $aheb40327 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(dli)heb40327.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU403270001001 035 $a(Perlego)2031065 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000811367 100 $a20090427d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulinary fictions $efood in South Asian diasporic culture /$fAnita Mannur 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781439900789 311 08$a1439900787 311 08$a9781439900772 311 08$a1439900779 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 $a9910961558503321 996 $aCulinary fictions$91565868 997 $aUNINA