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Recipes and songs, an analysis of cultural practices from South Asia, Razia Parveen

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

no index present

non fiction

Recipes and songs

Razia Parveen

Palgrave studies in literary anthropology

an analysis of cultural practices from South Asia

This book presents a systematic approach to the literary analysis of cultural practices. Based on a postcolonial framework of diaspora, the book utilizes literary theory to investigate cultural phenomena such as food preparation and song. Razia Parveen explores various diverse themes, including the female voice, genealogy, space, time, and diaspora, and applies them to the analysis of community identity. This volume also demonstrates how a literary analysis of oral texts helps to provide insight into women’s lived narratives. For example, Parveen discusses how the notion of the ‘third space’ creates a distinctly feminine spatiality