Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race (Exploded Views)

Ruthnum, Naben

ISBN 10: 1552453510 / ISBN 13: 9781552453513

Verlag: Coach House Books, 2017

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1552453510-4-34204989

Inhaltsangabe:

No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.

Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny 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 upbringing, 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 flavor 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Naben Ruthnum won the Journey Prize for his short fiction, has been a National Post books columnist, and has written books and cultural criticism for the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, and the Walrus. His crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Joyland, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley's first novel will appear in 2018. Ruthnum lives in Toronto.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race (Exploded ...
Verlag: Coach House Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair