Culinary diplomacy's role in the immigrant experience : fiction and memoirs of Middle Eastern women / Jennifer Gray.

"Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women is the first contribution to literary food study to examine Middle Eastern women's writing. Using twenty-first century transnational theory, the volume establishes books with recipes as tools of culin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Jennifer, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Subjects:
Fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
Food habits in literature.
International relations.
Food > Social aspects.
Fiction > Women authors.
Prose literature > Women authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xxvi, 117 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Café Space and Culinary Diplomacy in Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate Soup and Rosewater and Soda Bread
  • Culinary Diplomacy Beyond Café Space in Joanne Harris's Peaches for Monsieur le Curé
  • The Legacy of Citizen Culinary Diplomacy in Donia Bijan's The Last Days of Café Leila
  • Food as Metaphorical Expression in Mehran's Pomegranate Soup
  • Cooking up Identity in Abu-Jaber's Crescent
  • "Your Place is Empty"
  • Food and Transcultural Identity in Middle Eastern Women's Culinary Memoirs.