Discourses of Power Through Oral Consumption in Margaret Atwood’s Select Novels

Authors

  • Garima Bhayana Research Scholar Chaudhary Bansi Lal University Bhiwani (Haryana), India
  • Dr Sneh Lata Sharma  Assistant Professor Chaudhary Bansi Lal University Bhiwani (Haryana), India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59136/lv.2023.1.1.107

Keywords:

Atwood, Consumption, Feminism, Oral, Power

Abstract

In several works by Margaret Atwood, food is a metaphor for power. The powerful ones eat and the weak counterparts do not. Power is latent under the acts of consumption in daily life basic survival acts. The paper discusses aspects mentioned about food in Atwood’s novels, notably feminist ideas of eating disorders that invite intriguing significations regarding the food motif. The analysis of the politics of eating in her works within the framework of Foucauldian discourse overlapping with Gramscian hegemonic economy, offers a fresh perspective on women's subverted position attributed to food.

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Author Biography

  • Garima Bhayana, Research Scholar Chaudhary Bansi Lal University Bhiwani (Haryana), India

     

     

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Published

2023-03-01

Issue

Literary Voice. Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2023

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Discourses of Power Through Oral Consumption in Margaret Atwood’s Select Novels . (2023). Literary Voice, 1(1), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.59136/lv.2023.1.1.107