atriarchy as a social construct:a gastro-semiotic criticism of the foodspheres in J.P.Clark’s The Wives’Revolt  

作　　者：Olaosun Ibrahim Esan 

机构地区：[1]Department of English,Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife,Nigeria Primary

出　　处：《Language and Semiotic Studies》2022年第4期165-178,共14页语言与符号学研究（英文）

摘　　要：The broad theoretical underpinning of this paper is that food is a vital part of the second-order signifying modes in literary texts.Its definite thesis,in relation to the age-long debates on power dichotomy between male and female gender,is that while men merely enjoy and noisily exercise social power sustained by patriarchy,which is a contrivance,women possess a great deal of authentic powers usually not overtly acknowledged.These theoretical and ideological(thesis)statements respectively are demonstrated through a semiotic reading and analysis of four foodspheres in J.P.Clark’s The Wives’Revolt,using the critical lenses of gastro-criticism,social semiotics and textual cooperation theory.Through these analytical lenses,the paper recognises that each of the foodspheres in this play is a hypertext which transcodes or interogates the diverse gendered power relation hypotexts embodied in religious,socio-cultural and institutional semiospheres.It concludes that the power that women exercise in food preparation and administration,as signified in some of the foodspheres analysed,is a semiotic prototype of the many other unnoticed powers,through which the female homo rule the world.

关 键 词：culinary tradition food foodsphere PARATEXT semiotic prototype 

分 类 号：H02[语言文字—语言学] I106[文学—世界文学]