Khabaar

An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-60938-823-2
Verlag: University of Iowa Press

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: FoodStory

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghosh, Madhushree

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1: Peyaara se Pyaar or the Love for Guava
- Chapter 2: Maachher Bazaar, Fish for Life
- Chapter 3: Feeding the Future Ex-in-Laws or Mr. and Mrs. Mohgan’s Able Assistant
- Chapter 4: In Search of Goat Curry
- Chapter 5: When Indira Died
- Chapter 6: Dessert in Kolkata Summers: Search for Naru
- Chapter 7: Orange, Green, and White: An Indian Marriage
- Chapter 8: Of Papers, Pekoe, Poetry, and Protests in 2019 India
- Chapter 9: Memory and What Makes a Family
- Chapter 10: The Rituals of the Great Pause

Über Autor(innen)

Madhushree Ghosh works in oncology diagnostics, and is a social justice activist. Her work has been awarded a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in San Diego, California.