Caribbean food cultures : culinary practices and consumption in the Caribbean and its diasporas /

Caribbean food cultures : culinary practices and consumption in the Caribbean and its diasporas / Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Ana-Sofia Commichau, Patrick Helber, Sinah Kloss (editions.). - Bielefeld : Transcript, (c)2014. - 1 online resource : illustrations - Postcolonial studies ; volume 18 .

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Caribbean (on the) dining table : contextualizing culinary cultures / The aesthetics of hunger and the special period in Cuba / Hotel worlds and culinary encounters in Cristina García's The lady matador's hotel / 'You are what you cook' : preparing food, creating life in Treme / The fierce questioning of fictional Caribbean communion in Édourad Glissant's Ormerod and Fortuné Chalumeau's Désirade, ô serpente! / Curiosity, appreciation, and old habits : creolization of colonizers' food consumption patterns in three English travelogues on the Caribbean / Representations of Caribbean food in U.S. popular culture / Cooking up a storm, residual orality, cross-cultural culinary discourse, and the construction of tradition in the cookery writing of Levi Roots / The transnational ajiaco : food identity in the Cuban diaspora / Reinventing local food culture in an Afro-Caribbean community in Costa Rica / Barrels of love : a study of the soft good remittance practices of transnational Jamaican households / Hindu ritual food in Suriname : women as gatekeepers of Hindu identity? / "De fuud dem produus me naa go iit it!" Rastafarian 'culinary identity' / Wiebke Beushausen [and others] -- Rita De Maeseneer -- Louisa Söllner -- Sebastian Huber -- Daniel Graziadei -- Ilaria Berti -- Fabio Parasecoli -- Sarah Lawson Welsh -- Ivan Darias Alfonso -- Mona Nikolić -- Diane Plaza -- Elizabeth den Boer -- Annika McPherson.

"Caribbean Food Cultures" approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of "authentic" food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism. The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.



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Food habits--Caribbean Area--Congresses.
Group identity--Caribbean Area--Congresses.
Food in popular culture--Caribbean Area--Congresses.
Food habits in literature--Congresses.


Electronic Books.

GT2853 / .C375 2014