Abstract
In The Inheritance of Loss and A House for Mr. Biswas, food might be recognized as an
all-important metaphor for self-identification. Food is loaded with meaning about
relations, communion, home and identity. In the said texts, food becomes a powerful
voice for an emptiness which lives on as a physical craving and a continual sense of
discomfort. Identity seems to become physical and instinctive when it comes to food.
Interestingly in the postcolonial moment, food appears to lose its capacity for
gratification and either acts as a catalyst for evoking disappointment, or a metaphor for
self-estrangement that is usually experienced by the displaced subject. This paper aims to
show the effects of colonization on the characters’ eating habits and their struggle at
dining table and around kitchen. The native is lured into preferring western food over
local cuisine so as to cover his colonial inadequacy but most often get deprived of the
food that has been satisfying both to his palate and his stomach.
Najma Saher, Shazia Sadaf. (2017) We Are What We Eat In A House for Mr Biswas and the Inheritance of Loss, The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Volume-25, Issue-1.
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