Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Boutique Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Repulsion : Re-Disseminating Food Fictions in Malaysian and Singaporean Diasporic Novels
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This article argues that representations of repulsion and disgust regarding food in recent Singaporean and Malaysian fiction is reflective of 'the growing unease caused by the commercial and ideological exploitation of consumable multiculturalism' (32). The author reads the work of Hsu-Ming Teo, as well as that of Vyvyanne Loh and Josephine Chia to demonstrate how 'ironic displays of repulsive food' may 'counter Orientalization' (45).

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31-46 Boutique Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Repulsion : Re-Disseminating Food Fictions in Malaysian and Singaporean Diasporic Novelssmall AustLit logo The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Subjects:
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    Singapore,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Malaysia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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