Title Curry : eating, reading, and race / Naben Ruthnum.

Publication Info.	Toronto [Ontario] : Coach House Books, [2017]
	Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2017.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (117 pages).
Series	Exploded views
	Exploded views.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-116).
Summary	No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta's Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford's Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience.
Subject	East Indian diaspora.
	Group identity.
	East Indians -- Ethnic identity.
	East Indians -- Race identity.
	East Indians in literature.
	East Indian diaspora in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Curry powder.
	Ethnicity.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Curry powder. (OCoLC)fst00885410
	East Indian diaspora. (OCoLC)fst01201673
	East Indian diaspora in literature. (OCoLC)fst01201800
	East Indians -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst00901068
	East Indians in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901085
	Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
	Ethnicity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00916067
	Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
	Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
Other Form:	Print version: 9781552453513 (CaOONL)20179049550
ISBN	9781770565241 (electronic book)
	1770565248 (electronic book)
	9781770565234 (electronic book)
	177056523X (electronic book)

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