Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture

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Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Sayan Dey (Alliance University, Bangalore.)

Palates of Pleasure

Food, Memories and Culture

Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa), Sayan Dey (Alliance University, Bangalore.)

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Routledge India
30 May 2025

Regional studies; Social & cultural history; Food & society; Sociology; Medical sociology

This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. With diverse contributions from India, South Africa, Colombia, the United States, United Kingdom and Jamaica, it discusses themes including modernity as a stuffed gourd; decolonising food in Colombia; culinary colonialism today; trijunction of colonialism, Hindu/India resistance and hybridity; Hindu widows and forbidden food; Dutch colonisation of the Cape and its food sources in Bengal (India), Indonesia and Malaysia; politicizing the kitchens in India; and autoethnographic accounts of food, cooking, compliance and resistance, to underscore how patterns of cooking and eating build knowledge systems in daily life. The book also addresses the cultural and ethnic components of suppression, cultural expressions of food and belonging as is evidenced in Filipina American cultural identities marked by migration, pleasure and taste as a psycho-sexual construct at the Cape in South Africa where the enslaved understand the value of food and pleasure.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, philosophy, post-colonial studies, gender studies, food studies, food history, food anthropology, sociology, political sociology and social anthropology.

Edited by: Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa), Sayan Dey (Alliance University, Bangalore.)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032406428
ISBN 10: 1032406429
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rozena Maart was born in District Six, the old slave quarter of Cape Town, South Africa. She has Bengali, Javanese and Indigenous Xhosa heritage. She loves food and loves cooking as do both sides of her family. She is also a mother and two years ago became a grandmother. She is the winner of the “The Journey Prize: Best Short Fiction in Canada, 1992”, and two lifetime achievement awards in philosophy and literature, a Mercator Fellow at the University of Bremen for the Contradiction Studies programme, and a Research Ambassador. She is Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Sayan Dey is Bengali and was raised in Kolkata. Currently, he works as Assistant Professor at Bayan College in Oman. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, a Critical Research Studies Faculty at The NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York, and an Affiliated Member of the Global Posthuman Network. His latest monographs are 'Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems' (Routledge, 2022) and 'Performing Memories, Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean' (2023).