Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial

by Parama Roy

In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of colonizer and colonized, generating novel experiences of desire, taste, and appetite as well as new technologies of the embodied self. For colonizers, Indian nationalists, diasporic persons,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822348020
• ISBN13: 9780822348023
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.1"