Curry: Eating, Reading, And Race (exploded Views)
by Naben Ruthnum /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly
funny 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 upbringing, 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
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly
funny 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 upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive
taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown
identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta'sKarma
Cola
Karma
Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford's
and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford'sHeat
Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the
beloved flavor calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits
the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in
the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's
, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the
beloved flavor calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits
the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in
the footsteps of Salman Rushdie'sImaginary Homelands
Imaginary Homelands,
Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically
Indian diasporic experience.
,
Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically
Indian diasporic experience.Naben Ruthnum
Naben Ruthnum won the Journey Prize for his short
fiction, has been a
won the Journey Prize for his short
fiction, has been aNational Post
National Post books columnist, and
has written books and cultural criticism for the
books columnist, and
has written books and cultural criticism for theGlobe and
Mail
Globe and
Mail, Hazlitt, and the
, Hazlitt, and theWalrus
Walrus. His crime fiction has
appeared in
. His crime fiction has
appeared inEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and
andJoyland
Joyland, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley's first novel
will appear in 2018. Ruthnum lives in Toronto.
, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley's first novel
will appear in 2018. Ruthnum lives in Toronto.