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Foodways and subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.(Critical essay)
"Preparing fish is a political act."
--Janice Mirikitani, "Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?" (86)
Proposing a "Gastronomic Theory of Literature," Brad Kessler ponders a friend's observation that "every good novel she'd ever read opened with a food scene in the very first or second chapter" (149). He questions how these early meals function, whether they "stimulate the reader's appetite for the larger meal ahead" (151). For Kessler, food in great fiction "opens doors to double and triple meaning" (156). Discussing a scene in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which the narrator purchases a hot baked yam from a street vendor, Kessler notes its ...
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