Theories of food consumption will furnish an entry point for a discussion of dining rituals in What’s Cooking?, where feasting scenes both represent and subvert gender codes as well as racial, class, and ethnic divisions. Through the lens of foodways, I want to explore how the movie under analysis employs foodways in presenting cultural heteronormativity, ethnic and racial assimilation, and a single woman’s search for self-definition. Chadha incorporates and interweaves various culinary traditions to create an image of multicultural Los Angeles, where members of families belonging to different racial and ethnic minority groups attempt to resist social pressures and preserve their identities and values through their own renditions of Thanksgiving fare. In her movie What’s Cooking? (2000), Gurinder Chadha uses foodways as a perfect vehicle for emotional manifestations, attitudes, and dilemmas of four families living in Los Angeles. She lives in Berkeley, California.“Ethnic Diaspora Through the Kitchen: Foodways in the Postcolonial Feminist Discourse of Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?” The Moravian Journal of Literature and Film 4.2 (Fall 2013): 35–53. Berkeley and Mills College and in Women's Studies at S.F. Carla has lectured in Ethnic Studies at the U.C. Her novel What Night Brings won the 2003 Miguel Mármol Prize and runner-up for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award, as well as Honorable Mention for the Writers at Work competition.

Berkeley, and has focused some of her recent activities on improving the classroom climate for underrepresented students in the College of Engineering using Interactive Theater. She works as a Director of Diversity programs in the College of Engineering at U.C. She is the author of several short stories, and various articles on identity, sexuality, and higher education. Her dissertation focused on assessing differential treatment of underrepresented students in college classrooms.Ĭarla is the editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991), which won the LAMBDA Book Award for Best Lesbian Anthology and the Out/Write Vanguard Award for Best Pioneering Contribution to the field of Gay/Lesbian Lifestyle Literature and of Living Chicana Theory (1998). in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received a BS degree in Human Development from UC Davis and an MS and Ph.D. Last update of this page: November 4 th 2004Ĭarla was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico and raised in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Carla Trujillo

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