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.).

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

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