Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (American Literatures Initiative (Temple University Press)) 9781439900789, 9781439900772, 1439900787

Food, Anita Mannur writes, is a central part of the cultural imagination of diasporic populations. 'Culinary Fictio

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