Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction Consuming Passions, Unpalatable Truths /

• Main Author: Vlitos, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Comparative literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Comparative Literature.

This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and gender are enacted. Drawing u...