The School of Modern Language's and Culture's Associate Professor Gaik Cheng Khoo has recently published a volume on food culture in Malaysia and Singapore, co-authored with Jean Duruz, entitled 'Eating Together: Food Space and Identity in Singapore and Malaysia' and published by Rowman & Littlefield.
From the publishers' website:
"Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes,restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics.
The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning “mixture”), together with Ien Ang’s evocative“together-in-difference,” enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering.Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of “different”people living together, and the search for home and identity in a world on the move."
You can purchase the book at a special discount using the form provided here.
Posted on 29th October 2014