Boutique Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Repulsion: Re-Disseminating Food Fictions in Malaysian and Singaporean Diasporic Novels.

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    • Subject Terms:
      MALAYSIA; SINGAPORE; AUSTRALIA
    • Subject Terms:
      BEHIND the Moon (Book); BREAKING the Tongue (Book)
    • Abstract:
      The article examines diastoric food fiction from Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, focusing on "Behind the Moon," by Hsu-Ming Teo, "Breaking the Tongue," by Vyvyanne Loh and autobiographical novels from Josephine Chia. The author argues that these novels articulate the uneasiness caused by the commercial and ideological exploitation of consumable multiculturalism in presenting repulsive descriptions of food and disgust as a reaction to its production.