Curry: Eating, Reading, And Race (exploded Views)

Curry: Eating, Reading, And Race (exploded Views)
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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.

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