Food as a Means to Negotiate Cultures in Diana Wynne Jones's Power of Three
| Autor: | Hsin-Chun Jamie Tsai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | International Research in Children's Literature. 4:151-165 |
| ISSN: | 1755-6201 1755-6198 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/ircl.2011.0023 |
| Popis: | In the light of food studies in social science, this article examines references to food, its connotations and the ways in which cultures use such phenomena to legitimate their systems of meanings and ideologies, and suggests that food in Diana Wynne Jones's Power of Three works to conjoin the concepts of self and other and as a means to negotiate and transform the familiar self and the unfamiliar other. As all living creatures must feed, in entering a different culture, one cannot avoid experiencing foods. The probable immediate reaction might be shock or dislike for the unfamiliar taste, and hence quickly it could be consigned to otherness. However, by adjusting one's taste to accept the foods, one opens the possibility of crossing the cultural boundaries constructed through the arbitrary eating habits and altering one's prejudiced presumptions. With a compounded narrative that withholds much story information, Power of Three draws on this dual nature of food to mark it as a means through which both the protagonists and the novel's readers negotiate the notions of self and other as well as cultural boundaries and differences. |
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