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Recipes and Songs : An Analysis of Cultural Practices from South Asia / by Razia Parveen

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Online-Ressource (XIX, 231 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color, online resource)

Englisch

978-3-319-50246-5

978-3-319-50245-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 982123843 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-319-50246-5

GN301-GN674

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bicssc: JHMC ; bisacsh: SOC002000

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Ethnology -- Asia ; Ethnology -- Europe ; Ethnology ; Sociology ; Religion and culture ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences

This book presents a systematic approach to the literary analysis of cultural practices. Based on a postcolonial framework of diaspora, the book utilizes literary theory to investigate cultural phenomena such as food preparation and song. Razia Parveen explores various diverse themes, including the female voice, genealogy, space, time, and diaspora, and applies them to the analysis of community identity. This volume also demonstrates how a literary analysis of oral texts helps to provide insight into women’s lived narratives. For example, Parveen discusses how the notion of the ‘third space’ creates a distinctly feminine spatiality

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1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Mapping the Matrilineal -- 4. The Dynamics of Nostalgia in the Construction of Diasporic Identity -- 5. Space, Time, and Female Empowerment in Diaspora -- 6. Conclusion