Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
(Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series)
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In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences of desire, taste, and appetite as well as new technologies of the embodied self. For colonizers, Indian nationalists, diasporic persons,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822348020
ISBN13:9780822348023
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 9.1"
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