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Author:   Gigy J. Alex
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9781803747811

ISBN 10:   1803747811
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   21 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Acknowledgement - Chapter 1: The Heterotopia of Food: Exploring the Expressions of Desire and Dissent through Spaces of Food in Melissa Broder’s Milk Fed, Alina Udayan, Jeyalakshmi Subramanian - Chapter 2: Sweet Dish, Bitter Truth: Food as a Metaphor for Sorrow in Githa Hariharan's Gajar Halwa, Alka Jain - Chapter 3: Rice of the Novel: Class Struggle and Caste Trouble in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s Randitangazhi, Ananthajith K. R. - Chapter 4: Eat, Eat, Eat: Expressions of Food in Selected Children's Storybooks, Nithya Mariam John - Chapter 5: Mapping India through Flavours: An Analysis of Select Non-fiction Works on India’s Foodscapes, Parvathy Vijayan - Chapter 6: The Sociocultural Dimension of Food in Select Works of Amitav Ghosh, Pushpa R Menon - Chapter 7: Dalit Food Culture and Deliberate Forgetting; Exploring the Dalit Food Culture through Memories, Prarthana Manoj - Chapter 8: Politics of Memory and Identity in Reem Assil's Cookbook – Arabiyya, Aysha Sana - Chapter 9: Cooking Up Diaspora: A Study of Padma Lakshmi and Madhur Jaffrey’s Memoirs, Tanishqa Vaish - Chapter 10: Cookbooks as Cultural Ambassadors: An Analysis of Select Culinary Narratives from Kerala, Gigy J. Alex - Chapter 11: Eating Hunger: The Famine Food Narratives of Travancore Famines with Special Reference to the Great Famine of 1860, Swathilekha Thampy - Chapter 12: Survival through the Ages: Tracing the Persistence of Famine Foods in Bengal, Diyali Bhattacharya - Editor and Contributor Bio Notes - Index

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Gigy J. Alex is with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Dept of Space, Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Her areas of interest include Food and Cultural Studies, and Science Fiction. She loves teaching and actively engages in culinary research from the cultural studies perspective.

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