Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Culinary literary criticism is a new field which has gathered interest among many scholars around the world. The cultural significance of gastronomic representations in literary texts is usually interconnected with the issues of gender, race, and class. The current study aims to examine the relation...
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| description | Culinary literary criticism is a new field which has gathered interest among many scholars around the world. The cultural significance of gastronomic representations in literary texts is usually interconnected with the issues of gender, race, and class. The current study aims to examine the relation between food and gender identity in the selected works of two prominent Nigerian female writers in terms of Susan Bordo’s views on ‘food and the ideal body image’ and ‘cooking and gender roles’. In the present age, the ideas of having an ideal gendered body and also gender obligations have permeated more deeply among individuals by the social media, including advertisements, and thus have gained increasing prominence among scholars. Employing Foucault’s terminology, Bordo criticizes the individuals’ obsession and excess to shape their bodies according to the gendered ideals and thus turning to docile bodies and also the issue of cooking as a gendered micropractice. Here, it can be argued how Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the two feminist novelists, present the motif of food and cooking in their works to question the dominant patriarchal culture and the expected gender roles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f5c05afacc0b4534a5c4602c7e8be06e2022-12-22T00:34:57ZengUniversity of KurdistanCritical Literary Studies2676-699X2716-99282022-05-014211112910.34785/J014.2022.190Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AmericanahMaryam Moein Kharazi0Kaihan Bahmani1Ph.D. Candidate of English Literature, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, IranAssistant Professor, Alborz Danesh University, Abyek, Qazvin Province, IranCulinary literary criticism is a new field which has gathered interest among many scholars around the world. The cultural significance of gastronomic representations in literary texts is usually interconnected with the issues of gender, race, and class. The current study aims to examine the relation between food and gender identity in the selected works of two prominent Nigerian female writers in terms of Susan Bordo’s views on ‘food and the ideal body image’ and ‘cooking and gender roles’. In the present age, the ideas of having an ideal gendered body and also gender obligations have permeated more deeply among individuals by the social media, including advertisements, and thus have gained increasing prominence among scholars. Employing Foucault’s terminology, Bordo criticizes the individuals’ obsession and excess to shape their bodies according to the gendered ideals and thus turning to docile bodies and also the issue of cooking as a gendered micropractice. Here, it can be argued how Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the two feminist novelists, present the motif of food and cooking in their works to question the dominant patriarchal culture and the expected gender roles.https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_62217.htmlculinary literary criticismideal body imagedocile bodygender rolesmicropracticecooking |
| spellingShingle | Maryam Moein Kharazi Kaihan Bahmani Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Critical Literary Studies culinary literary criticism ideal body image docile body gender roles micropractice cooking |
| title | Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah |
| title_full | Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah |
| title_fullStr | Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah |
| title_short | Food and Female Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah |
| title_sort | food and female identity in buchi emecheta s double yoke and chimamanda ngozi adichie s americanah |
| topic | culinary literary criticism ideal body image docile body gender roles micropractice cooking |
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