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BL
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967025
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b721395
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| Main Entry
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Mannur, Anita.
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| Title & Author
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Culinary fictions : : food in South Asian diasporic culture /\ Anita Mannur.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1439900795
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: 9781439900796
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1439900779
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1439900787
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9781439900772
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9781439900789
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Food matters -- Nostalgia, domesticity and gender. Culinary nostalgia: authenticity, nationalism, and diaspora -- Feeding desire: food, domesticity, and challenges to heteropatriarchy -- Palatable multiculturalisms and class critique. Sugar and spice: sweetening the taste of alterity -- Red hot chili peppers: visualizing class critique and female labor -- Theorizing fusion in America. Eating America: culture, race, and food in the social imaginary of the second generation -- Easy exoticism: culinary performances of Indianness -- Conclusion: Room for more: multiculturalism's culinary legacies.
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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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Cooking, Indic.
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English literature-- South Asian authors-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Food habits in literature.
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Food in literature.
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South Asians in literature.
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Cooking, Indic.
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English literature-- South Asian authors.
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English literature-- Women authors.
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Food habits in literature.
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Food in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- Asian American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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South Asians in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/3564
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| LC Classification
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PN56.F59M36 2010eb
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