Curry : reading, eating, 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 distinc...

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Main Author:	Ruthnum, Naben (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : Coach House Books, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Exploded views.
Subjects:	East Indian diaspora. East Indians > Ethnic identity. East Indians > Race identity. East Indians in literature. East Indian diaspora in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Race in literature. Curry powder. Ethnicity. Group identity. East Indians. India.
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."--