期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：434-439
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：This paper analyses the evocation of nation in Chitrita Banerjee's recent food travelogue Eating India: Exploring a Nation's Cuisine(2007). It looks at how a diasporic writer like Chitrita judges her Indianness through the lens of "culinary citizenship." Her gastronomic quest for culinary purity induces her to judge Indian food culture by its geographic location and by its ability to assimilate outside influences and regenerate into newer forms. The dynamics of Indian food ways reflects a greater socio-cultural ethos of modern India basking in the glory of a newfound economic mobility. In this new world order the authenticity of the Indian food becomes for Chitrita a mark of the nation's cultural resilience and strength
