{"product_id":"tasting-difference-food-race-and-cultural-encounters-in-early-modern-literature-hardback-9781501748707","title":"Tasting Difference; Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature (Hardback) 9781501748707","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTasting Difference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFood, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGitanjali G. Shahani (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501748707\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 7 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTasting Differences\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that most experience other cultures and traditions through the mouth. By eating foods from distant lands, one can experience the other from the comfort of home. What humans accept and do not accept as palatable is a rich area of study, and\u003ci\u003e Tasting Differences\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eOverall, the book contributes to developing conjectures on why certain communities and bodies cannot be incorporated into the body politic of the nation or the globe, together with explicating how this exclusion is affected by a complex network of taste and feelings that foodstuffs evoke.\u003c\/p\u003e (Gastronomica)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTasting Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe.\u003c\/b\u003e Gitanjali Shahani reimagines the contact zone between Western Europe and the global South in culinary terms, emphasizing the gut rather than the gaze in colonial encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom household manuals that instructed English housewives how to use newly imported foodstuffs to \"the spicèd Indian air\" of\u003ci\u003e A Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, from the repurposing of Othello as an early modern pitchman for coffee in ballads to the performance of disgust in travel narratives, Shahani shows how early modern genres negotiated the allure and danger of foreign tastes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning maxims such as \"We are what we eat\" on their head, Shahani asks how did \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c\/i\u003e (the colonized subjects) become what \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e (the colonizing subjects) eat? How did we become alternately the object of fear and appetite, loathing and craving? Shahani takes us back several centuries to the process by which food came to be inscribed with racial character and the racial other came to be marked as edible, showing how the racializing of food began in an era well before chicken tikka masala and Balti cuisine. Bringing into conversation critical paradigms in early modern studies, food studies, and postcolonial studies, she argues that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference, and it is experienced both as a different taste and as a taste of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntoduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Spices: \"The Spicèd Indian Air\"in Shakespeare's England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sugar: \"So Sweet Was Ne'er So Fatal\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Coffee: Eating Othello, Drinking Coffee\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bizarre Foods: Food, Filth, and the Foreign in the Culinary Contact Zone\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cannibal Foods: \"Powdered Wife\" and Other Tales of English Cannibalism\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Global Foods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52693184413976,"sku":"9781501748707","price":31.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tasting-difference-food-race-and-cultural-encounters-in-early-modern-literature-hardback-9781501748707","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}