Caribbean Food Cultures

ISBN 10: 383762692X / ISBN 13: 9783837626926

Published by transcript, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caribbean Food Cultures
• Publisher: transcript
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383762692X
• ISBN 13: 9783837626926
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of »authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism.
The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.

About the Authors

Wiebke Beushausen is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and PhD candidate in literary studies at Heidelberg University.

Anne Brüske (PhD) is the head of the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« at Heidelberg University since October 2010. She holds a PhD in Romance literature from Heidelberg University (2008) and has taught in Basel, Lyon and Heidelberg.

Ana-Sofia Commichau is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and PhD candidate in literary studies at Heidelberg University.

Patrick Helber (Dr. phil.) hat in Tübingen und Dublin Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft studiert und 2014 in Neuerer und Neuester Geschichte in Heidelberg promoviert. Er lebt in Berlin und ist u.a. Moderator einer Radiosendung über karibische Populärkultur.

Sinah Kloß is a research assistant in the junior research group »From the Caribbean to North America and Back« and a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Heidelberg University.