Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food imagery and metaphor represents complex ideas and deeper meaning in literature. Literary food studies analyzes food symbolism to reflect on cultural identity which includes various issues from social position to sexual desire to gender relations. In three postcolonial Indian novels, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting, food carries multiple meanings that serve to drive the action of the plots, characterize the characters, and reflect on aspects of the Indian culture. The writers use food and eating to symbolize cultural issues of acceptance, resistance, and preservation of culture, as well as symbols of memory, emotions, narrative history, relationships, power, and consumption. After examining each novel for its relevance of food images, this thesis will conclude by revealing the ways the food metaphors therein reflect directly on the Indian cultural identity as one of political and social fragmentation, postcolonial hybridity, patriarchal oppression, and repressed sexual desire.
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机译：后现代文化在很大程度上受到食物图像和食物作为隐喻的使用的影响。对食品研究的最新兴趣为文学研究打开了大门，以研究如何使用食品意象和隐喻代表文学中的复杂观念和更深层含义。文学食品研究分析了食品象征意义，以反映文化特征，其中包括从社会地位到性欲再到性别关系的各种问题。在三本印度后殖民小说中，萨尔曼·拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）的《午夜的孩子》（Midnight's Children），阿伦达蒂·罗伊（Arundhati Roy）的《小物之神》（The God of Small Things）和安妮塔·德赛（Anita Desai）的《斋戒，盛宴》（Fasting，Feasting）中，食物具有多种含义，可以推动剧情的发生，表征人物并反映出人物形象。印度文化。作者使用食物和饮食来象征接受，抵抗和保存文化的文化问题，以及记忆，情感，叙事历史，关系，力量和消费的象征。在检查了每本小说与食物图像的相关性之后，本文将通过揭示其中的食物隐喻如何直接反映印度文化身份的方式来结束，印度文化身份是政治和社会分裂，后殖民杂交，重男轻女和压制性欲之一。
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