Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational

Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational

Author: Jude V. Nixon

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1648893546

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“Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational” is a collection of essays exploring national identity, migration, exile, colonialism, postcolonialism, slavery, race, and gender in the literature of the Anglophone world. The volume focuses on the dispersion or scattering of people in exile, and how those with an existing homeland and those displaced, without a politically recognized sovereign state, negotiate displacement and the experience of living at home-abroad. This group includes expatriate minority communities existing uneasily and nostalgically on the margins of their host country. The diaspora becomes an important cultural phenomenon in the formation of national identities and opposing attempts to transcend the idea of nationhood itself on its way to developing new forms of transnationalism. Chapters on the literature or national allegories of the diaspora and the transnational explore the diverse and geographically expansive ways in which Anglophone literature by colonized subjects and emigrants negotiates diasporic spaces to create imagined communities or a sense of home. Themes explored within these pages include restlessness, tensions, trauma, ambiguities, assimilation, estrangement, myth, nostalgia, sentimentality, homesickness, national schizophrenia, divided loyalties, intellectual capital, and geographical interstices. Special attention is paid to the complex ways identity is negotiated by immigrants to Anglophone countries writing in English about their home-abroad experience. The lived experiences of emigrants of the diaspora create a literature rife with tensions concerning identity, language, and belongingness in the struggle for home. Focusing on writers in particular geopolitical spaces, the essays in the collection offer an active conversation with leading theorizers of the diaspora and the transnational, including Edward Said, Bill Ashcroft, William Safran, Gabriel Sheffer, Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, and Benedict Anderson. This volume cuts across the broad geopolitical space of the Anglophone world of literature and cultural studies and will appeal to professors, scholars, graduate, and undergraduate students in English, comparative literature, history, ethnic and race studies, diaspora studies, migration, and transnational studies. The volume will also be an indispensable aid to public policy experts.


Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Author: Keja L. Valens

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2024-02-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1978829566

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Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures, and transformed tastes for independence into flavors of domestic autonomy. Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence integrates new documents into the Caribbean archive and presents them in a rare pan-Caribbean perspective. The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive that Culinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean.


Puerto Rican Cookery

Puerto Rican Cookery

Author: Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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A collection of recipes for Puerto Rican dishes, covering all courses from soups to desserts, with a chapter on rum drinks. Includes a glossary and English and Spanish indexes.


The Mom 100 Cookbook

The Mom 100 Cookbook

Author: Katie Workman

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 076117124X

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Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years. Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.


The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook

The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook

Author: Tony Rican

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1646118049

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Master the melting pot of Puerto Rican cooking with 100 classic recipes Puerto Rican cooking is rich with diverse flavors and textures that come together to create a unique culinary experience you could only find on the Island of Enchantment—until now. The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook is packed with 100 classic recipes made simple, so you can create mouthwatering meals in your own kitchen with ease. Discover dozens of weeknight-friendly recipes, including a number of dishes that take 30 minutes or less to prepare and serve. Simplify your routine with recipes containing five ingredients or fewer, one-pot meals, slow-cooker dinners, and more. The authentic recipes in this Puerto Rican cookbook focus on whole foods, so you get all of the incredible flavors of traditional cuisine without the salt, fat, and processed ingredients. The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook includes: 100 delectable recipes—Get a true taste of the island with delicious recipes for every meal, from cocktails and small plates to entrees, desserts, and beyond. Staples from scratch—Try 16 staple recipes like Chicharrón de Cerdo (Fried Pork Belly), Mojo Criollo (Garlic Marinade), and Pique (Puerto Rican Hot Sauce). Your Puerto Rican pantry—This beautifully designed Puerto Rican cookbook offers a guide to stocking your kitchen with essentials like annatto seeds, guava paste, and more. If you've been searching for a Puerto Rican cookbook that simplifies traditional recipes without sacrificing flavor, look no further—The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook has everything you need.


Puerto Rico in your Kitchen

Puerto Rico in your Kitchen

Author: Wanda Wray

Publisher: Chef Wanda Wray

Published: 2023-04-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13:

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In the Creole food tradition comes Puerto Rico en su Cocina, an ambitious new take on Puerto Rican and Latino cuisine. This book is part of a new and important culinary voice. Chef and writer Wanda Wray has taught cooking using her revolutionary yet simple philosophy by explaining the how and why of good, tasty cooking; she will inspire a new generation of cooks to make better, confident choices in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredient, anywhere, anytime. Puerto Rico in Your Kitchen bridges the gap between domestic and professional cooking. With charming narration, illustrated walkthroughs, and a light-hearted focus on the kitchen, Wanda demystifies the tools of good cooking for everyone. This book has more than 100 essential recipes and dozens of variations to put the lessons into practice and make tasty, bright, and balanced dishes. Puerto Rico in Your Kitchen is the perfect combination of classic recipes, new dishes, and essential reference information for home cooks of yesterday and today. Whether it's the only cookbook on your shelf or one of many, Puerto Rico in Your Kitchen is the essential, trusted guide for cooks. In your book Puerto Rico in your Kitchen, you will find your favorite dishes, delicious Puerto Rican recipes such as Apastelao Rice, Chicken Rice, Mamposteao Rice, Rice with Pigeon Peas, Chicken Rice, Stewed Beans, Mofongo, Pastelón, Canoas, Coquito, Piña Colada, Guava Casquitos, Rice with Dulce, Flan, Tres Leches, Majarete, Tembleque, Coconut Kisses, Limber, Water Bread, Sobao Bread, Triplets, Sofrito, Adobo, Seasoning, Bacalaítos, Skewers, Alcapurrias, Asopao Rice with Chicken, Sancocho, Fried Meat, Chicken Fricassee, Biscayne Cod, Garlic Shrimp, Criolla Shrimp, Ceviche and many more recipes. You will also find cooking techniques.


High-Risk Homosexual

High-Risk Homosexual

Author: Edgar Gomez

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2022-01-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1593767064

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*Winner of the American Book Award* *Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography* An Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from a cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who help redefine pride I’ve always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas . . . In a world desperate to erase us, queer Latinx men must find ways to hold on to pride for survival, but excessive male pride is often what we are battling, both in ourselves and in others. A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor’s office where he was diagnosed a “high-risk homosexual.” With vulnerability, humor, and quick-witted insights into racial, sexual, familial, and professional power dynamics, Gomez shares a hard-won path to taking pride in the parts of himself he was taught to keep hidden. His story is a scintillating, beautiful reminder of the importance of leaving space for joy.


The Cuban Table

The Cuban Table

Author: Ana Sofia Pelaez

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1466857536

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The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources. Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective of their secrets. Content with a private kind of renown, they demonstrate an elusive turn of hand that transforms simple recipes into bright and memorable meals that draw family and friends to their tables time and again. More than just a list of ingredients or series of steps, Cuban cooks' tricks and touches hide in plain sight, staying within families or being passed down in well-worn copies of old cookbooks largely unread outside of the Cuban community. Here you'll find documented recipes for everything from iconic Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish accents and African ingredients, accompanied by details about historical context and insight into cultural nuances. More than a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a celebration of Cuban cooking, culture and cuisine. With stunning photographs throughout and over 110 deliciously authentic recipes this cookbook invites you into one of the Caribbean's most interesting and vibrant cuisines.


The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

Author: Sandra Cisneros

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0345807197

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.