咖喱身份":通过散居地妇女的烹饪书对南亚身份进行文学再创作

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI:10.3390/h13010022
Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay, Samrita Sengupta Sinha
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在移民社区集体身份的构建过程中,食物一直是一个持久的存在。从磨练烹饪技术、选择食材和工具到发展消费和鉴赏文化,散居社区似乎将食物作为身份的主要标志之一。散居国外的女作家不仅通过对食物的书写来体现她们的身份,而且还为女权主义的写作方法提供了机会。这些 "烹饪小说 "后来被用来研究移民身份的性别化问题。从稳定 "真实 "身份的角度来看,烹饪书这一体裁与 "烹饪小说 "在范围上有很大的重叠。然而,它以外科手术的方式戳穿了美食想象的浪漫魅力,将重点转移到产生烹饪记忆感官刺激的劳动上。本文以这种重叠和差距为诱因,来解读烹饪小说鼎盛时期出版的部分烹饪书。以劳动为标准来阅读烹饪书,可以提供某种亲密的接触,从而进入不确定的移民身份的复杂谈判。情感劳动及其与后殖民的纠葛在文章中被用作催化剂,以解读对散居地女性美食写作政治的多层次理解。在这一意义上,文章将对解读烹饪身份的稳定方式提出挑战,并开放食物写作,对食物的性别写作进行更有力的探讨。
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‘Currying Identities’: A Literary Re-Crafting of South-Asian Identities through Diasporic Women’s Cookbooks
Food has been an enduring presence in the construction of collective identities of migrant communities. From honing cooking techniques and selecting ingredients and tools to developing cultures of consumption and appreciation, diasporic communities seem to hold food as one of the primary markers of identity. Women writers from the diaspora not only emblematized their identities by writing about food but also opened feminist methodological opportunities for writing resistance. These ‘culinary fictions’ have since been mined to delve into the gendering of migrant identities. The genre of cookbooks shares a significant overlap with ‘culinary fiction’ in terms of its scope by stabilizing ‘authentic’ identities. However, it surgically punctures the romantic appeal of food imagination, shifting its focus instead to the labor that produces the sensory stimulation of culinary memory. This article uses this overlap and this gap as incentives to read select cookbooks published in the heydays of culinary fiction. Reading cookbooks against the metrics of labor provides a certain intimacy of engagement that offers entry into complex negotiations of uncertain migrant identities. Affective labor and its postcolonial entanglements have been used as catalysts in the article to read into the multilayered understanding of the politics of women writing about food in the diaspora. To this extent, it will challenge the stabilized ways of reading culinary identities and open food writing to more robust negotiations of gendered writings of food.
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