From food studies to food stories, commenting, writing and eating the American Dream in the memoirs of Louise DeSalvo and Shoba Narayan
Virginia Allen-Terry Sherman  1@  
1 : Institut des Langues et Cultures dÉurope, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie  (ILCEA4)  -  Página web
Université Grenoble Alpes : EA7356
ILCEA4 - Université Grenoble Alpes UFR Langues étrangères - CS 40700 - 38058 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9 -  France

In this study, we will consider the culinary genres emerging from food studies that are satellites of the culinary memoir genre, narratives that recount immigrant women's lives as they confront American culture. The culinary memoir, a recent narrative approach to autobiography, appears to exert a far-reaching influence even amongst writers not pre-destined to food-flavoured self-writing. It is characterized by its capacity to allow immigrant writers to explore their relationship to America and to the American Dream, an ideal which comforted or seduced their parents with utopian promises. Often authored by food studies specialists, food memoirs celebrate culinary legacies as well as experimentation. Many of these memoirs such as those of Louise DeSalvo and Shoba Narayan, wrestle diasporic transnational identities with sometimes illusory contemplations of the American Dream.

 

 

 


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