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India, Curry and Europe: A Case of Culinary Colonialism / MERIN JOSEPH
Swansea University Author: MERIN JOSEPH
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This thesis titled India, Curry and Europe: A Case of Culinary Colonialism is an attempt to understand how colonialism impacted the food habits of the colonised and the colonisers. The project draws on the established theories and concepts of postcolonialism including Edward Said’s study of forms of...
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Swansea
2023
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Institution: | Swansea University |
Degree level: | Master of Research |
Degree name: | MA by Research |
Supervisor: | Williams, Daniel |
URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62365 |
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This thesis titled India, Curry and Europe: A Case of Culinary Colonialism is an attempt to understand how colonialism impacted the food habits of the colonised and the colonisers. The project draws on the established theories and concepts of postcolonialism including Edward Said’s study of forms of ‘othering’ in Orientalism and Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of ‘mimicry’, which entails the colonised’s attempts at mimicking the colonial power, while also simultaneously and ‘slyly’ undermining the dominating culture’s sense of superiority. By employing the recipes in cookbooks as primary reference subjects I aim to analyse and understand the form of writing in Victorian cookbooks and also interrogate themes advanced by postcolonial critics - the disintegration of indigenous culture, hybridity, double consciousness and unhomeliness. The project also attempts to study ‘curry,’ its origin and its current position in India and Europe by carrying out an analysis of the representation of Indian food in Victorian and contemporary literature set in India and Europe. By re-reading the cookbooks and exploring the recipes featured, the thesis aims to prove that the effects of colonialism do not remain in the past but continue to shape the thoughts of people and their culinary habits in India and Europe even today and that the relationship between ‘curry’, India and Europe is based on a history of ‘Culinary Colonialism’. |
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Curry, India, Colonialism, Post-colonialism |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |