Starving Spirits: Food Practices and Gender Violence in Diana Evans’s 26a and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Autor:	Moreno Redondo, Rosa
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	inanición ecocriticism vegetarianismo Vegetarianism patriarchal violence starvation identidad femenina naturaleza female identity nature ecocrítica violencia patriarcal
Zdroj:	riUAL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Almería Universidad de Almería
DOI:	10.25115/raudem.v6i0.2274
Popis:	This article examines the conflicts experienced by the protagonists of 26a (2005) by British-Nigerian Diana Evans and The Vegetarian (2007) by South Korean Han Kang, which are related to patriarchal violence and reflected in their changing dietary habits, ranging from vegetarianism to starvation. Their changes in food practices are interpreted from feminist, food studies, and ecocritical perspectives as stemming from their rebellion against patriarchal abuse and sharing important connections with the natural world, also a traditional object of male dominance and domestication, which are emphasised through frequent references to trees, flowers and fruit
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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