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An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora

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"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 Contents

Acknowledgments
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

Culinary Fictions

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      Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
      Published 15 December 2009
      ISBN-13 9781439900789
      978-1439900789
      ISBN-10 1439900787
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments
      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

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