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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Vlitos, Paul (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Ways of Reading a Meal
• 2. 'Our Little Bastard World': Food, History and Identity in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul
• 3. 'It was Actually Wonderful to See What Fertile Ground the Dining Table was for Discussion and Debate': Food, Gender and Culture in the Novels of Anita Desai
• 4. Stereotypes, Family Values, and Chop Suey: Food, Authority and Authenticity in the Novels of Timothy Mo
• 5. The Chutnification of History and the Limits of Gastronomic Pluralism: Food, Identity and the Commodification of Culture in the Novels of Salman Rushdie
• 6. Conclusion.