@inbook{840c646ef1814cfbb668dd095c0774e3,
title = "Capitalist world-ecology, food crisis, and embodied aesthetics in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve",
abstract = "Kamala Markandaya's first novel, Nectar in a Sieve, is marked by the pressures of food and food crisis in mid 20th century India. This essay explores through imaginative works the contexts and the contours of colonialist capitalism-led starvation in late-colonial India through which it argues for the struggles for food that postcolonial India had anticipated.",
keywords = "Food, Hunger, Nation, Postcolonial, Kamala Markandaya",
author = "Sourit Bhattacharya",
year = "2023",
month = sep,
day = "12",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032231693",
series = "Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "172--183",
editor = "Patra, {Parichay } and Bhattacharya, {Amitendu }",
booktitle = "Frontiers of South Asian Culture",
address = "United Kingdom",
}