Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora
Trade Review"Mannur skillfully deploys nuanced readings of culinary cultural strategies embedded in and performed by a wide range of South Asian diasporic texts. While numerous fields including queer, feminist, critical race, and diasporic studies will be enriched by this astute book, with her attention to the cultural politics of consumption, production, and difference, Mannur's greatest impact will be on Asian American Studies and its commitment to re-imaginings of race, gender, and citizenship."-Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, and author of Beyond Bollywood
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Food Matters
PART I: Nostalgia, Domesticity, and Gender
1. Culinary Nostalgia: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Diaspora
2. Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity, and Challenges to Heteropatriarchy
PART II: Palatable Multiculturalisms and Class Critique
3. Sugar and Spice: Sweetening the Taste of Alterity
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Visualizing Class Critique and Female Labor
PART 3: Theorizing Fusion in America/b>
5. Eating America: Culture, Race, and Food in the Social Imaginary of the Second Generation
6. Easy Exoticism: Culinary Performances of Indianness
Conclusion: Room for More: Multiculturalism’s Culinary Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
