Fasting Feasting

INGESTION, DIGESTION AND REVULSION OF FOOD AND CULTURE IN ANITA DESAIS FASTING, FEASTING T. RAVICHANDRAN* ABSTRACT This article attempts a cultural study offood and eating habits in Anita Desais Booker see short-listed novel, Fasting, Feasting. It shows how the ingestion offood affects acculturation process both in India and the States in a multicultural context. Considering Foucaults view that discourse is relate in the exertion of power, some of the discourses from the novel are scrutinised to intermit an oppressive power structure. Interestingly enough, the power structure of the novel revolves around a gastronomical centre; and parents through repressive familial norms exert power. The linguistic strategies, such as repeating and interruption, used to assert power are analysed by examining pick up hold of instances from the novel. Further, it shows how the novelist, through a transcultural bundle of representative characters as MamaPapa, Uma, Arun, the Pattons, Melanie, and Rod, assesses the cross-cultural culinary habits, divergences, and subversions involved.

However, it concludes with the observation that taking the novel as a dichotomous study of two cultures, the one Indian, on account of its spiritual dimension representing fasting, and the other, American due to its jam signifying eat, would result in a myopic reading. Whereas, the real overhear of the novel lies in the flux shown between fasting and feasting - a digesting of the best of both the cultures. ... the very essence of Indian culture is that we possess a mixed tradition, a mingle-mangle of elements as disparate as ancient Mughal and contemporary Cocacola American (Salman Rushdie) From food, from food creatures, all creatures come to be. Gorging, disgorging, being come to be. (Taittriya Upanishad) In the Indian cultural scenario, there has been a great outshout about the safeguarding and perpetuation of the Indianness. This implies, apart from * Dr. T. Ravichandran is a Assistant... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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