Patriarchy as a social construct: a gastro-semiotic criticism of the foodspheres in J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt

The broad theoretical underpinning of this paper is that food is a vital part of the second-order signifying modes in literary texts. Its definite thesis, in relation to the age-long debates on power dichotomy between male and female gender, is that while men merely enjoy and noisily exercise social...

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Main Author: Ibrahim Esan Olaosun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-12-01
Series:Language and Semiotic Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022-2011