Curry : eating, reading, and race /
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture and his own background, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Coach House Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Exploded views.
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| Summary: | Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture and his own background, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta's Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford's Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience. |
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| Physical Description: | 117 pages : portrait ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-116). |
| ISBN: | 1552453510 9781552453513 9781770565241 1770565248 |