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By: Anita Mannur
Price: $19.25
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2013
Edition: First Indian Edition
Seller ID: 037522
ISBN: 812151245X
Condition: New
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how motions 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 Americanization, but also... View more info
