Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

2017 • 144 pages

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More than curry (even if it's not real!), the complexity of diaspora and nostalgia when the tendency is to reduce a ‘brown' narrative to one story understood and enjoyed by white audiences. Ruthnum is explaining why he avoided the “curry-books” of south Asian writers growing up, and why he refused to have his first book be one that could be seen by readers as a curry-book.

March 27, 2018