Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures

Anita Mannur

Published by Duke University Press 2022

Intimate Eating

Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures

Anita Mannur

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022442

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About this book

Anita Mannur examines how cooking, eating, and distributing food can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects.

Author / Editor information

Anita Mannur is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture, and coeditor of Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader.

Reviews

“Anita Mannur’s extraordinary analyses of cooking and eating in photography, film, television, novels, blogs, and performance art creates new forms of the public in unexpected places: inside bedrooms and kitchens, alongside food trucks, and under the white tent of The Great British Bake Off. She generates in her readers a hunger for queer kinships with friends and strangers forged outside of the patriarchal domain of family life. Intimate Eating is powerful reading for Asian American studies, queer and feminist of color studies, and food studies: I want to eat every meal with this book.”

-- Bakirathi Mani, author of Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America

“In this brilliant, urgent, and necessary book Anita Mannur underscores one of the central tenets of neoliberalism: the increased privatization of everyday life and attacks on the public. She vividly shows how nonnormative subjects navigate this trend, turning private spaces and practices via the culinary into ones that foster sociability, intimacy, community, and belonging. Through the provocative and timely concept of ‘intimate eating publics,’ Mannur has captured the pleasures and possibilities of publics and how they act as sites of forging radical ways of belonging.”

-- Mark Padoongpatt, author of Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America

"[Mannur's] reflections move back and forth between a scholarly tone which at times does not recuse itself from jargon and a personal voice that is able to express raw—at times joyful, at times painful–emotions. Both styles are effective in weaving engaging arguments and developing a critical analysis of the material at hand. Mannur’s memories of family dinners and the progressive dissolution of her marriage are honest, direct, and passionate, without invalidating the rigor of her analysis. . . . In Intimate Eating, Mannur pushes us to embark on our own explorations to reassess pieces of popular culture that we may be familiar with but whose power we may not be fully aware of."

-- D. Sutton Food Anthropology

"Mannur brings an acute tongue and sensory analysis to a wide range of contemporary samplings, which in itself provides a dizzying array of the author’s scope."

-- Christine R. Yano Society for U.S. Intellectual History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Tiffin Box and Gendered Mobility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Cooking for One and the Gustatory Gaze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 Eat, Dwell, Orient: Food Networks and Asian/American Cooking Communities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4 Tasting Conflict: Eating, Radical Hospitality, and Enemy Cuisine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5 Baking and the Intimate Eating Public Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192

eBook

Published: January 4, 2022
ISBN: 9781478022442