Canadian Culinary Imaginations 9780228013785
An exploration of food-focused art, literature, and culture and how they generate and disrupt discourses around Canadian
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Table of contents :
Cover
Canadian Culinary Imaginations
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Indigeneity and Foodways: Stories from Home and Abroad
1 Foodland Security: Access to Country Food by Inuit in an Urban Setting
2 What Can We Learn from Dining with Bears? Indigenous Stories, Worldviews, and the Environment
3 Changing Tides: Indigenous Chefs at the Culinary Olympics and the Gastronomic Professionalization of Aboriginal Cooking
4 Terra Nullius on the Plate: Colonial Blindness, Restaurant Discourse, and Indigenous Cuisines
5 From Meat to Metaphor: Beavers and Conflicting Imaginations of the Edible
Part Two (Sub)Urban/Rural Imaginations: Producing and Representing Foodscapes
6 Montreal in the Culinary Imagination
7 Creating Contemporary Canadian Agri-Art: Learning from Practice, Responding to Place, Working with Immateriality
8 Food, Place, and Power in Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park
9 PLOT: An Interview with Cora and Don Li-Leger (The People’s Food Security Bureau)
10 A Case Study on Ghost River Theatre’s Food Performance
Part Three Culinary Lineages: Collective and Personal Reflections
11 Chewed a Book Lately? Douglas Coupland’s Souvenir of Canada Coffee-Table Books
12 Phototextual Remembering in Janice Wong’s Chow: From China to Canada: Memories of Food + Family
13 The Royal Cafe Experience
14 Writing beyond “Currybooks”: Construction of Racialized and Gendered Diasporic Identities in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
15 Playing with Food
Part Four Subverting Categories: Critical-Creative Re-interpretations of Food
16 Breaking Bread: Queer Foodways and the Non-human
17 A Taste for the Abject: Food in the Relational Artworks of Sandee Moore
18 “Viciousness in the Kitchen”: Women and Food in Alice Munro’s Fiction and Mary Pratt’s Visual Art
19 Table of Contents: Reading, Cooking, Eating Canadian Literature
20 A MEAT/MEETING in the Park: Ursula Johnson’s (re)al-location and The Festival of Stewards
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Contributors
Index
