Transcript Verlag - Caribbean Food Cultures Culinary Practices And Consumption In The Caribbean And Its Diasporas - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " 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.
Title: Caribbean Food Cultures Culinary Practices And Consumption In The Caribbean And Its Diasporas
Brand: Transcript Verlag
Barcode: 9783837626926
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 11/18/2014
Series: Postcolonial Studies
Category: Politics & Government