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- Title
The Treatment of 'Food' in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting.
- Authors
Muthukumar, B.; Mariappan, B.
- Abstract
The paper focuses on the treatment of 'food' in Anita Desai's 'Fasting, Feasting' (1999). In this novel 'Food' is treated as metaphor. Desai uses food to compare and contrast between the two families. In one culture, food is used as a vehicle to express 'communication'. In the other culture the food is used as express 'isolation'. Desai uses the trope of food to represent the most oppressive legacies of patriarchal subjection of women under the rubric of modern-day capitalism. Colliding and collapsing the binaries of India and the U.S. Desai shows that hunger and appetite unyieldingly construct the gendered subject whose troubled relationship with food is in a certain way symbolic of her lack of power and her struggle towards self-preservation.
- Publication
Language in India, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p146
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Academic Journal