Food Metaphor:Reading Food in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies  

作　　者：HUANG Xin-hui 

机构地区：[1]Guangdong Construction Polytechnic,Guangzhou,Guangdong Province,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2022年第4期340-345,共6页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies food metaphor diasporic experience 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]