{"product_id":"9781439900796","title":"Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. \u003ci\u003eCulinary Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows use to describe Indians abroad. When an immigrant mother in Jhumpa Lahiri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Namesake\u003c\/i\u003e combines Rice Krispies, Planters peanuts, onions, salt, lemon juice, and green chili peppers to create a dish similar to one found on Calcutta sidewalks, it evokes not only the character’s Americanization, but also her nostalgia for India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood, Anita Mannur writes, is a central part of the cultural imagination of diasporic populations, and \u003ci\u003eCulinary Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e maps how it figures in various expressive forms. Mannur examines the cultural production from the Anglo-American reaches of the South Asian diaspora. Using texts from novels—Chitra Divakaruni’s \u003ci\u003eMistress of Spices\u003c\/i\u003e and Shani Mootoo’s \u003ci\u003eCereus Blooms at Night\u003c\/i\u003e—and cookbooks such as Madhur Jaffrey’s \u003ci\u003eInvitation to Indian Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e and Padma Lakshmi’s \u003ci\u003eEasy Exotic\u003c\/i\u003e, she illustrates how national identities are consolidated in culinary terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154739118320,"sku":"9781439900796","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439900796_p0.jpg?v=1763758027","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439900796","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}