Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. S...
Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. S...
Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. Shahani.
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Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2436
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Spices : "the spicèd Indian air" in Shakespeare's England -- Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal" -- Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee -- Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone -- Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.
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Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature / Gitanjali G. Shahani.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/2436
Record Identifier
74VKaPo5374Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPo5374Z
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ISBN
9781501748707 hardcover
150174870X hardcover
DDC
820.9356409031
MMS ID
991024314200302626
