Theories of food consumption will furnish an entry point for a discussion of dining rituals in What’s Cooking?, where feasting scenes both represent and subvert gender codes as well as racial, class, and ethnic divisions. Full Book Name:The Color of Water Author Name:James McBride Book Genre:African American, Autobiography, Biography, Cultural, Memoir, Nonfiction ISBN 9781440636103 Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name:TheColorofWater-JamesMcBride. Through the lens of foodways, I want to explore how the movie under analysis employs foodways in presenting cultural heteronormativity, ethnic and racial assimilation, and a single woman’s search for self-definition. Chadha incorporates and interweaves various culinary traditions to create an image of multicultural Los Angeles, where members of families belonging to different racial and ethnic minority groups attempt to resist social pressures and preserve their identities and values through their own renditions of Thanksgiving fare. With Christopher Atkins, John Campanello, Valerie Stack Dodge, Charles Gray. His book is based on interviews with his mother. The Color of Water: Directed by Reebie Sullivan. In her movie What’s Cooking? (2000), Gurinder Chadha uses foodways as a perfect vehicle for emotional manifestations, attitudes, and dilemmas of four families living in Los Angeles. James didnt know about that until he began researching his mothers past when he wrote The Color of Water. “Ethnic Diaspora Through the Kitchen: Foodways in the Postcolonial Feminist Discourse of Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?” The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film 4.2 (Fall 2013): 35–53. The Color of Water is a nonfiction autobiography published in 1996 by the American author and musician James McBride.Subtitled A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother, The Color of Water chronicles the author’s challenges growing up in the 1960s and 70s as a mixed-race child of a White Jewish mother.
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