The Gastrodynamics of Edna Pontellier’s liberation.

In The Awakening Kate Chopin uses foodways to define and transgress the social and cultural boundaries of acceptable female behavior as well as to reinscribe woman’s identity through the culinary dimension of her heroine’s life. The novelist uses eating and dining scenes as metaphors for Edna Pontel...

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Main Author: Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2012-01-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5307
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