"Culinary-Scapes: Food and Ethnicity in America"
Recently, there have been a significant number of works that use food as
way to speak about ethnicity and nation in the Americas. This panel
proposes to explore how food is mobilized in different types of narrative
that are connected with issues of race, ethnicity and gender in the
Americas. How do discussions of food and culinarity map out a certain
terrain of what can be considered 'American'? Of particular interest will
be papers that explore how the representation of food and culinary
practices used in different types of narratives --fiction,
ethnographies, cook books, film etc as ways to uphold and challenge
concepts of the 'nation' that inform our understanding of what is
'America'. This topic is fairly open and papers from all disciplines are
welcome.
Potential topics might include, but are not limited to: -- exploration of
specific films such as Soul Food, What's Cooking? Catfish in Black Bean
Sauce-- analyses of popular cooking shows e.g.. Iron Chef-- analyses of
fiction focusing on food.-- explorations of specific "Food Network" stars
e.g.. Ming Tsai, Padma Lakshmi-- gender and food in Hollywood cinema
--other topics exploring issues of race, ethnicity and gender and
connections with food and culinarity.
Please send 150 word abstract via email to Anita Mannur (amannur@mit.edu)
by December 31.
Anita Mannur
Lecturer,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14N-421
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel: 617. 253.4536
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