Coghlan, Michelle J, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. Pp. 285. ISBN 97...
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Affective Refuge in the Work of Samuel Beckett
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Drawing upon Sara Ahmed's “cultural politics of emotion” and Claire Colebrook's conceptualization of “Cartesian affect,” this article puts forward the notion of affective refuge, a phenomenon which is investigated through an analysis of Samuel Beckett's Watt, Krapp's Last Tape and Ohio Impromptu. First, I highlight the opposing perspectives as well...
“Nice Greek Girls Are Supposed to Marry Greek Boys … and Feed Everyone”: Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in My Big Fat Greek...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) captures the complex life of a Greek-American family and the struggles of the main protagonist, Toula Portokalos, to reconcile her own desires as a second-generation immigrant with those of her ethnic parents, especially in terms of gender roles and expectations. In the movie, Toula's journey towards self-discovery a...
From Culinary Practice to Printed Text: The Eighteenth-Century Language of London Cookbooks
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The present article will explore the role that cookbooks had in eighteenth-century London, being extremely popular and highly pirated, probably the most successful women's printed genre of the eighteenth century. These cookery books represented a reliable source of information not only about social distinction and food practices, but also about urb...
Hahner, Leslie A. To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century. East L...
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Underground Film Translations in 1980s Romania: A Gateway to Freedom
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The context of the communist regime in the late 1980s Romania was definitely a most peculiar one. During this period of time, translations from other languages were scarce and only the ones which were in accordance with the communist ideology were allowed. It was a time when people had neither many rights nor did they have many choices to make. In ...
The Sensuality of Taste: Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity as Mediated by Food and Food Culture in Monica Ali...
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Apart from being a compelling discourse on immigrants, cultural clashes, the East-West conflict, arranged marriages, extramarital affairs and general existential anxiety, Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane is also a fascinating excursion into the sensual and meandering world of food and its emotional and cultural implications. Trapped in an arranged mar...
Dorothy Wordsworth's Food-Mediated “History of the Personal” in The Grasmere Journal
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Food practices (preparation and consumption) have long been viewed as mere domestic routines, and thus, often dismissed for being too “frivolous [a] realm” to receive the same scholarly attention as “great topics” such as “politics, economics, justice and power” (Shapiro 2). Emerging during the 1970s, food studies owe their theoretical model to res...
Cooking and Eating as Linguistic Experiences: Metamorphoses in the Japanese Familial Culinary Universe Reflected in the ...
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The aim of this study is to describe the role of bentōs (Japanese lunch boxes) in contemporary Japanese society and its importance in different types of interpersonal relationships (the father-daughter relationship, friendship and love relationships). We will illustrate the value of this cultural element by analyzing the movie パパのお 弁当は世界一 Papa no O...
Mihaela Ursa (coordinator). Zoe, fii bărbată! Coduri de gen în cultura României contemporane. Ed. Adrian Tătăran and Ale...
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