Of Edible Grandmothers, Culinary Cosmopolitanisms, and Casteized Domesticities: The Contradictory Ideologies of Shoba Narayan’s Food Memoir Monsoon Diary

Q1 Arts and Humanities

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-02 DOI:10.1080/08989575.2022.2127285

Nandini Dhar

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Abstract This essay analyses Indian-Tamil food memoirist Shoba Narayan’s memoir, Monsoon Diary (2003), arguing that the Indian diasporic feminized food-memoir is a crucial site through which to interrogate the class aspirations of a “new” globalized Indian elite. Narayan’s text was one of the first Indian diasporic food memoirs to be published in the early years of the twenty-first century, and played a decisive role in popularizing the genre of the feminized Indian food memoir. Switching between her life-story and recipes of everyday South Indian home-cooked fare, Narayan established a new hybrid genre within the cultural field of Indian Anglophone life-writing.

查看原文本刊更多论文

可食用的祖母，烹饪世界主义，和种姓化的家庭:Shoba Narayan的食物回忆录季风日记的矛盾意识形态

本文分析了印度-泰米尔美食回忆录作家Shoba Narayan的回忆录《季风日记》(2003)，认为印度流散的女性化美食回忆录是一个重要的场所，通过它来询问“新”全球化的印度精英的阶级愿望。纳拉扬的文本是21世纪初出版的第一批印度侨民美食回忆录之一，在普及女性化印度美食回忆录类型方面发挥了决定性作用。在她的生活故事和南印度日常家常菜的食谱之间切换，纳拉扬在印度英语生活写作的文化领域中建立了一种新的混合类型。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives. For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis. The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters. Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.