Global Anglophone Indian fiction is rife with food imagery. Food is cooked, consumed, discussed, and remembered – as concrete praxis or sensory evocation, as uncanny encounter or displaced reenactment of “home,” food pervades the contemporary Anglophone Indian novel. This dissertation places food at the centre, as legitimate object of inquiry within postcolonial literary readings, capable of impacting questions of form and meaning, of subjectivity and modernity. It argues that the inbetweenness, the ultimate cultural untranslatability of food in Anglophone fiction, its dynamic, assemblage aspect opens up a rich space of contingency and ambivalence that allow for both aesthetic and political decolonization. As food gets reworked for a global...
The cuisine and culinary practices of every geographically demarcated region has a major contributio...
PhD ThesisThis dissertation examines, creatively and critically, the role of gastronomy in Indian- ...
During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increase...
Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Rec...
The entity of food has always been central to life as well as literature. Food can tell us a lot abo...
Food plays a very significant role in diasporic studies. It acts as a symbol of love and care as it ...
The novels Fasting, Feasting (1999) by Anita Desai and Half a Life (2001) by V. S. Naipaul share the...
In Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture, Anita Mannur argues that food offers ‘a...
The Fooding of Narrative in Contemporary Women’s Transnational Fiction examines how foodstuffs are s...
“Culinary Scapes” analyzes culinary cultural production produced and consumed by South Asians in var...
As the anglophone Indian novel exists in the in-between space between transnational and local cultur...
Indian Literature and the World is a collection of critical essays featuring up-to-date scholarship ...
Consumption drives both global capitalism and the lives of literary texts, which may be consumed in ...
Among the problems left open by two centuries of British colonialism, that of Indian modernity has y...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes...
The cuisine and culinary practices of every geographically demarcated region has a major contributio...
PhD ThesisThis dissertation examines, creatively and critically, the role of gastronomy in Indian- ...
During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increase...
Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Rec...
The entity of food has always been central to life as well as literature. Food can tell us a lot abo...
Food plays a very significant role in diasporic studies. It acts as a symbol of love and care as it ...
The novels Fasting, Feasting (1999) by Anita Desai and Half a Life (2001) by V. S. Naipaul share the...
In Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture, Anita Mannur argues that food offers ‘a...
The Fooding of Narrative in Contemporary Women’s Transnational Fiction examines how foodstuffs are s...
“Culinary Scapes” analyzes culinary cultural production produced and consumed by South Asians in var...
As the anglophone Indian novel exists in the in-between space between transnational and local cultur...
Indian Literature and the World is a collection of critical essays featuring up-to-date scholarship ...
Consumption drives both global capitalism and the lives of literary texts, which may be consumed in ...
Among the problems left open by two centuries of British colonialism, that of Indian modernity has y...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes...
The cuisine and culinary practices of every geographically demarcated region has a major contributio...
PhD ThesisThis dissertation examines, creatively and critically, the role of gastronomy in Indian- ...
During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increase...