Culinary Connection and Identity in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Selected Works

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (c) - Option 23

Unit I

Food and Literature*

Unit II

Food , Culture and Society#

Unit III

Food and Identity%

Unit IV

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mistress of Spices (1997) and Arranged Marriage (1995)

Unit V

Jhumpa Lahiri  Interpreter of Maladies (1999)  and The Namesake (2003) 

Source Books: 

Essential Reading:

*Introduction (https://www.enotes.com/topics/food-literature)

Steffi, R and V. Sangeetha. “Determining the Symbolic Representation of ‘Food’ in Life and Literature”.Language in India, 19.1, January 2019. pp. 20-26 

Joan, Fitzpatrick. “Food and Literature”.122-34.

#Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies.Second Revised &Updated.Viva Books, pp.3-35.

Neuman, Nicklas. “ On the Engagement with Social Theory in Food Studies: Cultural Symbols and Social Practices”.  Food , Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research . 22.1.2019.78-94

%Afzal, Thahiya. “ “ Let There Be Food” : Evolving Paradigms in Food Studies. Social Critic: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 1.3. Dec.2014.

Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies.Second Revised & Updated. Viva Books, pp. 24-33.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reading:

Barua,Madhumita. “Cooking Home Food: Culinary Identity and Nostalgia in the Diasporic Stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni” Language in India, 19.1, January 2019. pp. 129-35.

Barthes, Roland . “Towards a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption”.Ed. Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik. Food and Culture: A Reader. Routeledge, 2008, pp.20-27.

Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology. Hill and Wang, 1964.

Bourdain, A.Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Harper Collins,2000.

Fred L.,Gardphe. “Introduction:Food in Multi-Ethnic Literatures”.MELUS 32.4.2007.pp.5-10.

Hall, Stuart. Questions of Cultural Identity: Cooking ,Eating and Drinking in Europe Since Middle Ages. OUP, 2001.

Mannur, Anita. Culinary Fictions : Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture.Temple University Press,2009.

Nestle,M.and Mcintosh, A. Writing the Food Studies Movement: Food ,Culture and Society.2010.

Parasecoli, Fabio. Cultural History of Food Fabio. OUP, 2012.

Shahani,Gitanjali G. Food and Literature. CUP. 2018.

Sharma, Ambika. “Nostalgia Through Food and Culinary Habits in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction”. IJELLH 6.7, July 2018. pp. 263-73.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019