Gitanjali Shahani (59 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 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. Turning maxims such as "We are what we eat" on their head, Shahani asks how did we (the colonized subjects) become what you (the colonizing subjects) eat? How did we become alternately the object of fear and appetite, loathing and craving? Shahani takes us back several centuries to the process by which food came to be inscribed with racial character and the racial other came to be marked as edible, showing how the racializing of food began in an era well before chicken tikka masala and Balti cuisine. Bringing into conversation critical paradigms in early modern studies, food studies, and postcolonial studies, she argues that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference, and it is experienced both as a different taste and as a taste of difference.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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. Turning maxims such as "We are what we eat" on their head, Shahani asks how did we (the colonized subjects) become what you (the colonizing subjects) eat? How did we become alternately the object of fear and appetite, loathing and craving? Shahani takes us back several centuries to the process by which food came to be inscribed with racial character and the racial other came to be marked as edible, showing how the racializing of food began in an era well before chicken tikka masala and Balti cuisine. Bringing into conversation critical paradigms in early modern studies, food studies, and postcolonial studies, she argues that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference, and it is experienced both as a different taste and as a taste of difference.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, xii + 265 pages, b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. A fine copy in a gently worn undamaged dust jacket. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Dust jacket is untorn, with sunned upper front panel and a small area of gentle scuffing on the side edge (front panel). -- With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and communication within the world of the text, itself an 'emissary' that strives to communicate and re-present certain perceptions of the 'real.' Drawing attention to the limits and licenses of communication, the emissary is a reminder of the alien quality of foreign language and the symbolic power of performative gestures and rituals. Contributions to this collection examine different kinds of cross-cultural activities (e.g. diplomacy, trade, translation, espionage, missionary endeavors) in different world areas (e.g. Asia, the Mediterranean, the Levant, the New World) via different critical methods and approaches. They take up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors, traders, translators, spies, middlemen, merchants, missionaries, and other agents, who served as complex conduits for the global transport of goods, religious ideologies, and socio-cultural practices throughout the early modern period. Authors in the collection investigate the multiple ways in which the emissary became enmeshed in emerging discourses of racial, religious, gender, and class differences. They consider how the emissary's role might have contributed to an idealized progressive vision of a borderless world or, conversely, permeated and dissolved borders and boundaries between peoples only to further specific group interests. -- Contents: - Part 1 Discourses of Diplomacy: The Shah's Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern / Jonathan Burton; Of Gifts, Ambassadors, and Copy-Cats: Diplomacy, Exchange, and Difference in Early Modern India / Ania Loomba; Representing the King of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan; - Part 2 Agents of Exchange: Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-Lord, and 'Made in France' / Pompa Banerjee; 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and Versus Merchants / Barbara Sebek; Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travelers and Early Modern English Identity / M.G. Aune; - Part 3 Language and Technologies of Mediation: The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works About the Ottomans in England / Linda Mcjannet; The Queen of Onor and Her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's Dialogue With India / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Listening to the Emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's / Marianne Montgomery; - Part 4 Transmission and Transformation: 'Backward and Abysm of Time': Negotiating With the Dead in the Tempest / Brinda Charry; 'Thrown From the Rock': Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World / Sheila T. Cavanagh.…

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Condition: New. Editor(s): Charry, Brinda (Syracyse University, USA). Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . . 2016. Paperback / so. . . . .

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