• Anju Varghese

Food is considered essential for the existence of living things, giving nourishment with its nutritional qualities. But far more than its nourishment value, food has surfaced as an object of interest when people began to see it as a part of ‘culture.’ In a cultural setting, different types of food, culinary preparations, eating events, and rituals, and food celebrating occasions carry multiple meanings that serve to drive the action of the plots, characterize the characters and reflect on aspects of the culture. Food is now recognized as an important area of study, in literature as well. Representation of food in fiction is intertwined with the issues of body, power, gender, class, religion and experience. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food represents complex ideas and deeper meaning in literature. In this paper, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman is taken for analysis. The food metaphors in this novel are analyzed within the framework of cultural studies.

Food, Metaphor, Multiple meanings, The Edible Woman

"Food as Metaphor: An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.618-621, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809498.pdf

"Food as Metaphor: An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp618-621, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809498.pdf