Representing Home
Reading the Aesthetics of Food in Postcolonial Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Lok (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.), Joshua Cheng Huai Lok (Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-59 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718.2020.1738714 |
| OpenAlex | W3024233927 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article seeks to establish aesthetic analysis as an integral approach to post-colonial literature, taking attention to form and depictions of beauty to stand for aesthetic qualities. More specifically, this article reads the treatment of food in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace (2000) and Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef (1995) as not only aesthetic achievements that resonate powerfully with many postcolonial concerns, but also as instances where aesthetically sensitive attention to form critically informs postcolonial concerns. Given the rapid development in the inter-sections between food studies and postcolonial criticism, food is no longer merely domestic and therefore apolitical, or in the play of flavours and spices and odours are the threads of colonial enterprises, national histories, independence movements, family legacies and personal narratives entwined around representations of home
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Colonialism · Criticism · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · History · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |