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    An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction

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    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham
    Abstract
    Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food imagery and metaphor represents complex ideas and deeper meaning in literature. Literary food studies analyzes food symbolism to reflect on cultural identity which includes various issues from social position to sexual desire to gender relations. In three postcolonial Indian novels, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting, food carries multiple meanings that serve to drive the action of the plots, characterize the characters, and reflect on aspects of the Indian culture. The writers use food and eating to symbolize cultural issues of acceptance, resistance, and preservation of culture, as well as symbols of memory, emotions, narrative history, relationships, power, and consumption. After examining each novel for its relevance of food images, this thesis will conclude by revealing the ways the food metaphors therein reflect directly on the Indian cultural identity as one of political and social fragmentation, postcolonial hybridity, patriarchal oppression, and repressed sexual desire.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3535
    Subject
     Literature; Asian literature; Cultural fragmentation; Food metaphor; Food studies; Oppression; Postcolonial hybridity; Midnight's children; God of small things, The; Fasting, feasting 
    Date
    2011
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    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham. (January 2011). An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3535.)

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    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham. An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2011. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3535. March 04, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham, “An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2011).
    AMA:
    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham. An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2011.
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    East Carolina University

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