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No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy by Lydia R. Cooper (review)

what is not apparent is how Morris's affirmation of US values might be qualitatively different from those espoused by female American travelogues and American guidebooks written for female travelers from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. In chapter 4, she argues that the dislocalizing strategies of fusion cuisine, as exemplified by materials in the upscale magazine Food & Wine, make travel "a mere appendage to a food experience" through the incorporation of fantasy and render invisible the politics of food availability in the US and food scarcity in other nations (203). She discusses this in the context of a decreasing necessity to travel abroad in search of exotica. However, if such a statement can be made in the context of a general decline of the need to experience exotic foods through travel, Chandra's case would've been stronger had she examined how the standardization of ethnic food in the mainland US offers up a space for the majority of Americans to experience exotic culinary delights without necessarily traveling outside the US. However, one could also, to be fair to the author, argue that such objections, along with these suggested alternatives, might become the subject of another book. Regardless, Chandra's Dislocalism has raised some interesting questions and is an excellent and stimulating work.