Culinary Diplomacy’s Role in the Immigrant Experience

Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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 Édouard 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-07
Mått164 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793627339

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IntroductionSection I - Strangers in a Strange LandChapter 1 - Café Space and Culinary Diplomacy in Marsha Mehran’s Pomegranate Soup and Rosewater and Soda BreadChapter 2 - Culinary Diplomacy Beyond Café Space in Joanne Harris’s Peaches for Monsieur le CuréChapter 3 - The Legacy of Citizen Culinary Diplomacy in Donia Bijan’s The Last Days of Café LeilaSection II - Writing with Gusto: The “Gustemological” in Culinary FictionChapter 4 - Food as Metaphorical Expression in Mehran’s Pomegranate SoupChapter 5 - Cooking up Identity in Abu-Jaber’s CrescentChapter 6 - “Your Place is Empty” – Food and Transcultural Identity in Middle Eastern Women’s Culinary Memoirs

Her stimulating text excites readers to try the referred to cuisines and to read the novels explored in her critical analysis. In this vein, the reviewer wonders about what other immigrant communities and case studies could be explored through the lens of citizen culinary diplomacy and the research insights that could be gained through ethnographic interviews. Through her insightful, engaging text, Gray convinces her readers to savor each bite of a new dish as a transcultural experience that crosses time and space. Each mouthful becomes a delicious act of local diplomacy where travel and tourism only require stepping across the threshold into a new restaurant.