Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry
This paper aims at analysing the Irish contemporary novel Stir-fry (1994), written by Emma Donoghue. The story is set in rural Ireland in the early 1990s, and this study focusses on how food, and the room of the kitchen, is used throughout the novel as a way to represent the emotional connections be...
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| description | This paper aims at analysing the Irish contemporary novel Stir-fry (1994), written by Emma Donoghue. The story is set in rural Ireland in the early 1990s, and this study focusses on how food, and the room of the kitchen, is used throughout the novel as a way to represent the emotional connections between the characters as well as the sexual awakening of the main character, Maria. The parallels between Maria’s relationship with food and the kitchen back at her original home in opposition to her new home in Dublin help create an understanding of how the character changes perspective on society and her own sexuality, exploring her new Self away from suffocating expectations and prejudices imposed by a highly religious, misogynistic and homophobic society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c6494f2674d94f5c8bfc9466f32f2aa52023-04-15T16:31:16ZengAssociação Brasileira de Estudos IrlandesesABEI Journal1518-05812595-81272023-04-01242859910.11606/issn.2595-8127.v24i2p85-99154588Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-FryEsther Borges0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-5253Universidade de São PauloThis paper aims at analysing the Irish contemporary novel Stir-fry (1994), written by Emma Donoghue. The story is set in rural Ireland in the early 1990s, and this study focusses on how food, and the room of the kitchen, is used throughout the novel as a way to represent the emotional connections between the characters as well as the sexual awakening of the main character, Maria. The parallels between Maria’s relationship with food and the kitchen back at her original home in opposition to her new home in Dublin help create an understanding of how the character changes perspective on society and her own sexuality, exploring her new Self away from suffocating expectations and prejudices imposed by a highly religious, misogynistic and homophobic society.https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/196602queer studiesirish literaturefoodlesbian erasure |
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| title | Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry |
| title_full | Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry |
| title_fullStr | Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry |
| title_short | Food is a Love Language: An Analysis of Connection and Desire in Stir-Fry |
| title_sort | food is a love language an analysis of connection and desire in stir fry |
| topic | queer studies irish literature food lesbian erasure |
| url | https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/196602 |
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