| Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women Contributor(s): Gray, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 1793627339 ISBN-13: 9781793627339 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 809.935 |
| LCCN: 2021002374 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women, the emergent field of literary food studies engages with international diplomacy studies to establish books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy. Foundational to the argument is culinary diplomacy scholar Sam Chapple-Sokol's concept of Citizen Culinary Diplomacy which endorses public events that promote understanding of cultures and people. However, this study challenges that definition and argues that culinary fiction and memoirs are shared interactive experiences between the author, the readers, and the culture written about. Foundational to the study are twentieth century postcolonial literary theories of Homi Bhabha and douard Glissant and twenty-first century transnational theory of sociologists Julian Go and Ulrich Beck to recognize culinary diplomacy's vital role in international affairs. Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience examines food as metaphorical expression in literature, and the impact of time, space, and place in developing diplomatic relationships between East and West in books by Diana Abu-Jaber, Donia Bijan, Joanne Harris, and Marsha Mehran. |