Full Description
This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; food representation; the symbolic valence of food; modes and manners of resistance articulated through food. Investigating consumption practices in both public and ethnic culture, each chapter introduces a fresh approach to food across diverse literary and cultural genres. The book offers a highly readable guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of literary and cultural studies, as well as the sociological fields of food studies, body studies and fat studies.
Contents
Food Substitutes, Health Supplements, and the Geist of Fitness in India.- Fast Food and Fatness in Popular Media.- Accio Food.- Who Eats Whom?.- What do you want for dinner, honey?.- Food for Thought-Feeling.- The Anatomy of Obesity.- Hunger Games.- Food for Soul, 'Soul' for Food.
