Alimentary Tracts : Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial PDF
by Roy Parama Roy
Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies series
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Interpreting texts that have addressed cooking, dining, taste, hungers, excesses, and aversions in South Asia and its diaspora since the mid-nineteenth century, Roy relates historical events and literary figures to tropes of disgust, abstention, dearth, and appetite. She analyzes the fears of pollution and deprivation conveyed in British accounts of the so-called Mutiny of 1857, complicates understandings of Mohandas K. Gandhi's vegetarianism, examines the "famine fictions" of the novelist-actor Mahasweta Devi, and reflects on the diasporic cookbooks and screen performances of Madhur Jaffrey. This account of richly visceral global modernity furnishes readers with a new idiom for understanding historical action and cultural transformation.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:08/11/2010
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- ISBN:9780822393146
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:08/11/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822393146