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    Culinary Fictions
    Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

    Anita Mannur (Author)

    9781439900789

    Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2009

    272 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.366 kg

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

    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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