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Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial by Parama Roy
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- Condizione
- Pages
- 277
- Publication Date
- 2010-11-08
- Book Title
- Alimentary Tracts
- ISBN
- 9780822348023
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822348020
ISBN-13
9780822348023
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92320162
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Alimentary Tracts : Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / India & South Asia, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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Trade Paperback
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0.8 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
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6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2010-023400
Reviews
"While Swami Vivekananda suggested that Indians needed 'beef, biceps, and Bhagvadgita' to overthrow the British, Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated that vegetarianism, abstinence, and nonviolent protest were the more appropriate practices for a spiritualized Indian national movement. By revealing the agency of gastropoetics and gastropolitics throughout modern South Asian history, Parama Roy brilliantly interrogates disgust, abstinence, dearth, and appetite as 'biomoral' categories that transformed traditional vectors of cultural analysis and social action. Roy's book is, unsurprisingly, great food for thought. It yields exquisite morsels alongside an intellectual savoring of all those gastronomic staples that resonate throughout history and literature. Did chapatis leaven the Mutiny? How did salt marinate the satyagraha? And why does the diaspora crave chutney and spices?"- Srinivas Aravamudan , author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language, "[A]n unusual but much-needed approach to such extraordinary phenomena as the "greased cartridges" (i.e., ones lubricated with beef and pork fat) and legendary "migratory chapati[s]" that figure largely in histories of the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) (p. 31). This finely written book draws our attention to other food-related episodes in the history of Indian nationalist resistance, such as Mahatma Gandhi's discovery of a vegetarian restaurant in London." - Joseph Bristow, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, "Roy's beautifully produced book looks at writing since the mid-nineteenth century to argue that food, its production, consumption and rejection, are key to an understanding, and rethinking, of wider processes of colonization, decolonization and globalization…. [Her] account is commendable for the extent to which it manages to combine theoretical sophistication with precise historical detail…. It is Roy's incisive precision, and her embodied understanding of eating that ultimately ensures the broader abstractions of her thesis are by turns convincing and compelling." - James Procter and Stephen Morton, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, "I f ever a work took seriously Jacques Derrida's insistence that we must understand eating as an act through which we both consume and are consumed, it is Parama Roy's remarkable new book, Alimentary Tracts ." - Julietta Singh, Reviews in Cultural Theory, If ever a work took seriously Jacques Derrida's insistence that we must understand eating as an act through which we both consume and are consumed, it is Parama Roy's remarkable new book, Alimentary Tracts ., Roy's beautifully produced book looks at writing since the mid-nineteenth century to argue that food, its production, consumption and rejection, are key to an understanding, and rethinking, of wider processes of colonization, decolonization and globalization.... [Her] account is commendable for the extent to which it manages to combine theoretical sophistication with precise historical detail.... It is Roy's incisive precision, and her embodied understanding of eating that ultimately ensures the broader abstractions of her thesis are by turns convincing and compelling., The book that results...is a historically dense, fluidly metacritical, lucidly theorized and exquisitely written meditation on eating as a poetic and political practice in South Asia and its diaspora from the mid-1800s to the present - one that would be of equal interest to postcolonial and literary scholars, as well as to interlocutors of the emerging areas of critical animal studies, posthumanities and food studies., “While Swami Vivekananda suggested that Indians needed ‘beef, biceps, and Bhagvadgita’ to overthrow the British, Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated that vegetarianism, abstinence, and nonviolent protest were the more appropriate practices for a spiritualized Indian national movement. By revealing the agency of gastropoetics and gastropolitics throughout modern South Asian history, Parama Roy brilliantly interrogates disgust, abstinence, dearth, and appetite as ‘biomoral’ categories that transformed traditional vectors of cultural analysis and social action. Roy’s book is, unsurprisingly, great food for thought. It yields exquisite morsels alongside an intellectual savoring of all those gastronomic staples that resonate throughout history and literature. Did chapatis leaven the Mutiny? How did salt marinate the satyagraha? And why does the diaspora crave chutney and spices?�- Srinivas Aravamudan , author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language, “This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting, and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It should be of great interest to historians of colonialism, of cuisine, and of the affective practices through which the colony-and the postcolony-produce their effects. It is beautifully and forcefully written, thus itself a sensory bonus for the reader.�- Arjun Appadurai , New York University, "This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting, and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It should be of great interest to historians of colonialism, of cuisine, and of the affective practices through which the colony-and the postcolony-produce their effects. It is beautifully and forcefully written, thus itself a sensory bonus for the reader."- Arjun Appadurai , New York University, "While Swami Vivekananda suggested that Indians needed 'beef, biceps, and Bhagvadgita' to overthrow the British, Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated that vegetarianism, abstinence, and nonviolent protest were the more appropriate practices for a spiritualized Indian national movement. By revealing the agency of gastropoetics and gastropolitics throughout modern South Asian history, Parama Roy brilliantly interrogates disgust, abstinence, dearth, and appetite as 'biomoral' categories that transformed traditional vectors of cultural analysis and social action. Roy's book is, unsurprisingly, great food for thought. It yields exquisite morsels alongside an intellectual savoring of all those gastronomic staples that resonate throughout history and literature. Did chapatis leaven the Mutiny? How did salt marinate the satyagraha? And why does the diaspora crave chutney and spices?"-Srinivas Aravamudan, author ofGuru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language, [A]n unusual but much-needed approach to such extraordinary phenomena as the 'greased cartridges' (i.e., ones lubricated with beef and pork fat) and legendary 'migratory chapati[s]' that figure largely in histories of the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) (p. 31). This finely written book draws our attention to other food-related episodes in the history of Indian nationalist resistance, such as Mahatma Gandhi's discovery of a vegetarian restaurant in London., "The book that results…is a historically dense, fluidly metacritical, lucidly theorized and exquisitely written meditation on eating as a poetic and political practice in South Asia and its diaspora from the mid-1800s to the present one that would be of equal interest to postcolonial and literary scholars, as well as to interlocutors of the emerging areas of critical animal studies, posthumanities and food studies." - Pooja Rangan, Parallax, "Parama Roy's extraordinary study of the culinary in modern Indian history and literature is among the finest in the burgeoning fields of food studies to systematically question how modes of consumption, patterns of commensality and culinary matters are central to understanding the emergence of the modern nation-state.... A wonderfully detailed study that considered a range of Indian colonial and postcolonial texts spanning short stories, cookbooks, memoirs and novels, this work will be useful to historians interested in examining the multiple meanings that can arise from the use of culinary rhetoric in historical contexts." , "The book that results...is a historically dense, fluidly metacritical, lucidly theorized and exquisitely written meditation on eating as a poetic and political practice in South Asia and its diaspora from the mid-1800s to the present - one that would be of equal interest to postcolonial and literary scholars, as well as to interlocutors of the emerging areas of critical animal studies, posthumanities and food studies." - Pooja Rangan, Parallax, "Roy's beautifully produced book looks at writing since the mid-nineteenth century to argue that food, its production, consumption and rejection, are key to an understanding, and rethinking, of wider processes of colonization, decolonization and globalization.... [Her] account is commendable for the extent to which it manages to combine theoretical sophistication with precise historical detail.... It is Roy's incisive precision, and her embodied understanding of eating that ultimately ensures the broader abstractions of her thesis are by turns convincing and compelling." - James Procter and Stephen Morton, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, "This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting, and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It should be of great interest to historians of colonialism, of cuisine, and of the affective practices through which the colony--and the postcolony--produce their effects. It is beautifully and forcefully written, thus itself a sensory bonus for the reader."-- Arjun Appadurai , New York University, "While Swami Vivekananda suggested that Indians needed 'beef, biceps, and Bhagavadgita' to overthrow the British, Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated that vegetarianism, abstinence, and non-violent protest were the more appropriate practices for a spiritualized Indian national movement. By revealing the agency of gastro-poetics and gastro-politics throughout modern South Asian history, Parama Roy brilliantly interrogates disgust, abstinence, dearth, and appetite as 'biomoral' categories that transformed traditional vectors of cultural analysis and social action. Roy's book is, unsurprisingly, great food for thought. It yields exquisite morsels alongside an intellectual savouring of all those gastronomic staples that resonate throughout history and literature. Did chapattis leaven the Mutiny? How did salt marinate the satyagraha? And why does the diaspora crave chutney and spices?" Srinivas Aravamudan, author ofGuru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language, Alimentary Tracts is a rich, theoretically engaging, and wide-ranging survey of the gustatory's significance to Anglo-Indian relations, as well as to the reception of Indian cuisines inside and outside the subcontinent and among non-Indians and Indians in the diaspora. Building on the work of Arjun Appadurai and others, [Roy] convincingly argues that a notion of what constitutes Indian food has provided the English-speaking elite in India and people of Indian origin outside of it with some building blocks of nationality., "While Swami Vivekananda suggested that Indians needed 'beef, biceps, and Bhagvadgita' to overthrow the British, Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated that vegetarianism, abstinence, and nonviolent protest were the more appropriate practices for a spiritualized Indian national movement. By revealing the agency of gastropoetics and gastropolitics throughout modern South Asian history, Parama Roy brilliantly interrogates disgust, abstinence, dearth, and appetite as 'biomoral' categories that transformed traditional vectors of cultural analysis and social action. Roy's book is, unsurprisingly, great food for thought. It yields exquisite morsels alongside an intellectual savoring of all those gastronomic staples that resonate throughout history and literature. Did chapatis leaven the Mutiny? How did salt marinate the satyagraha? And why does the diaspora crave chutney and spices?"-- Srinivas Aravamudan , author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
954.03
Table Of Content
Acknoledgments Introduction 1. Disgust: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857 2. Abstinence: Manifestos on Meat and Masculinity 3. Dearth: Figures of Famine Appetite: Spices Redux Remains: A Coda Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Interpreting South Asian and diasporic texts, Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization., In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences of desire, taste, and appetite as well as new technologies of the embodied self. For colonizers, Indian nationalists, diasporic persons, and others in the colonial and postcolonial world orders, the alimentary tract functioned as an important corporeal, psychoaffective, and ethicopolitical contact zone, in which questions of identification, desire, difference, and responsibility were staged. 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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