The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection o...The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection of short stories,Lahiri uses food as a means to navigate alienation and affection,as a conduit to recapture and relive old memories,and as a vehicle to articulate cultural construction of a new identity.Her manoeuvre of culinary writing is so adept that each item of food constitutes a situation to signal deep-hidden meaning beneath its surface information.Thus food becomes signs or metaphors of overseas Indian diasporic experience.展开更多
文摘The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection of short stories,Lahiri uses food as a means to navigate alienation and affection,as a conduit to recapture and relive old memories,and as a vehicle to articulate cultural construction of a new identity.Her manoeuvre of culinary writing is so adept that each item of food constitutes a situation to signal deep-hidden meaning beneath its surface information.Thus food becomes signs or metaphors of overseas Indian diasporic experience.
