Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature
Gitanjali G. Shahani, "Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature"
English | ISBN: 150174870X | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 150174870X | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gitanjali Shahani reimagines the contact zone between Western Europe and the global South in culinary terms, emphasizing the gut rather than the gaze in colonial encounters.
From household manuals that instructed English housewives how to use newly imported foodstuffs to "the spicèd Indian air" of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the repurposing of Othello as an early modern pitchman for coffee in ballads to the performance of disgust in travel narratives, Shahani shows how early modern genres negotiated the allure and danger of foreign tastes.
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