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Food Culture In Colonial Asia: A Taste Of Empire, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Food Culture In Colonial Asia: A Taste Of Empire, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues are used to investigate the culinary practices in the colonial household, as well as in clubs, hill stations, hotels and restaurants. Challenging accepted ideas about colonial cuisine, the book argues that a distinctive cuisine emerged as a result of negotiation and collaboration between the expatriate British and local people, and included dishes such as curries, mulligatawny, kedgeree, country …
Book Review: Kallendorf, Craig. The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings Of The Aeneid In Early Modern Culture, Ika Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Other Virgil is introduced as a contribution to the debate within classical scholarship over the historicity of "pessimistic" readings of Virgil’s Aeneid. This debate might at first appear to be a minor intradisciplinary quarrel, but in fact it has important implications for reception study more broadly, raising questions about the historicity of reception (and reading in general) and about the validity of various contemporary methodological approaches to reception and allusion.