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Media type:
E-Book;
Conference Proceedings
Title:
Caribbean Food Cultures
:
Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Contains:
Cover Caribbean Food Cultures; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; The Caribbean (on the) Dining Table. Contextualizing Culinary Cultures; CULINARY AESTHETICS; The Aesthetics of Hunger and the Special Period in Cuba; Hotel Worlds and Culinary Encounters in Cristina García's. The Lady Matador's H o tel; 'You are what you cook.' Preparing Food, Creating Life in Treme; The Fierce Questioning of Fictional Caribbean Communion in Édouard Glissant's Ormerod and Fortuné Chalumeau's Désirade, ô Serpente!; NEO/COLONIAL GAZE
Curiosity, Appreciation, and Old Habits. Creolization of Colonizers' Food Consumption Patterns in Three English Travelogues on the CaribbeanRepresentations of Caribbean Food in U.S. Popular Culture; CONSTRUCTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY; 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; CONSUMPTION AND COMMUNITIES
Barrels of Love. A Study of the Soft Goods Remittance Practices of Transnational Jamaican HouseholdsHindu Ritual Food in Suriname. Women as Gatekeepers of Hindu Identity?; "De fuud dem produus me naa go iit it!" Rastafarian 'Culinary Identity'; Notes on Contributors
Description:
Biographical note: Wiebke Beushausen is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and PhD candidate in literary studies at Heidelberg University. Anne Brüske (PhD) is the head of the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« at Heidelberg University since October 2010. She holds a PhD in Romance literature from Heidelberg University (2008) and has taught in Basel, Lyon and Heidelberg. Ana-Sofia Commichau is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and PhD candidate in literary studies at Heidelberg University. Patrick Helber is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and PhD candidate in contemporary history at Heidelberg University. Sinah Kloß is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Heidelberg University.
»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.