The Table is Laid : The Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing

Author: A K RamanujanJayant Mahapatra/Eminent ContributorsTranslator(s)/ Editors(s): John Thieme/ Ira RajaPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2009Language: EnglishPages: 384ISBN/UPC (if available): 0198062192 DescriptionThis anthology of writings on food brings together a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from South Asia. It draws on writing in English from the subcontinent, as well as the Diaspora and includes extracts from works by V.S. Naipaul, Romesh Gunesekera, Salman Rushdie, Sara Suleri, Kamila Shamsie, Githa Hariharan, and Kiran Desai, among others, alongside translations from regional Indian languages. The volume covers a broad range of areas of interest: scholarly, narrative, philosophical, literary, anthropological, and cultural. The recent interest in literary representations of food dwells on the idea that not only is eating the most basic of human activities, but also a major marker of social, cultural, and psychic identity. Food is an integral way in whic