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Curry

Eating, Reading and Race

Naben Ruthnum

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English
The Text Publishing Company
02 April 2018
No two curries are the same. Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.

Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity.

With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta’s Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford’s Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters.

Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentic Indian diasporic experience.
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Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9781925603668
ISBN 10:   1925603660
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Naben Ruthnum won the prestigious Canadian Journey Prize. Text will publish his first thriller, Find You In The Dark, written under the pseudonym of Nathan Ripley, in April 2018.

Reviews for Curry: Eating, Reading and Race

`Ruthnum picks apart Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Daniyal Mueenudin, Shoba Narayan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with a thoughtful ambivalence that exhibits an admirable intellectual honesty...It's fun to watch him think.' * Toronto Star *


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