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'Does the Girl Think of Nothing but Food?' FOOD AS A MARKER OF UNHOMELINESS, INAUTHENTICITY AND VIOLENCE IN ZOE WICOMB'S OCTOBER

机译：“女孩除了食物什么都没想到吗？”食品成为佐伊·威肯布10月份异常，虚假和暴力的标志

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The preparation and the consumption of food constitute integral parts of the idealized representations of domesticity and home. What we eat and how we eat it defines our sense of individuality, as well as our collective sense of cultural belonging. However, in this era of transcultural migration, the notion of "authentic" food is fraught with ambiguity. This paper examines the ways in which October, Zoe Wicomb's most recent novel, dismantles the concept of home and renders it dangerous through inscribing food as a site of cultural inauthenticity and violence. Returning to South Africa from Scotland at the behest of her ailing and alcoholic brother, Mercia Murray, the novel's protagonist, is forced to confront her family's history of violence, as well as her own complicity in it. Mercia, a colored university lecturer, has been living in Glasgow in Scotland since before South Africa's transition to democracy, and has been left for a younger woman by her long-time partner, Craig. The present-time of the novel details Mercia's interactions with her brother, Jake, and his wife, Sylvie. Food becomes the manner in which both women perform their identity. However, because food acts as a marker of both personal and cultural difference, Wicomb's depiction of it as unhomely undermines this performance at the same time. I will demonstrate how the representation of food as uncanny causes Mercia to re-examine her relation to the concept of home, and to restructure her understanding of her individual identity, as well as her alignment to a more general sense of cultural identity. Wicomb thus demonstrates the violence inherent in notions of cultural essentialism through the representation of food.
机译：食物的制备和食用是理想化的家庭和住所代表的组成部分。我们吃什么以及如何吃它定义了我们的个性感以及我们对文化归属的集体感。然而，在这个跨文化移徙的时代，“地道”食品的概念充满歧义。本文探讨了佐伊·威康姆（Zoe Wicomb）的最新小说《十月》如何破坏家庭观念，并通过将食物列为文化不真实和暴力的场所而使之变得危险。小说的主人公默西娅·默里（Mercia Murray）受其病残且酗酒的兄弟的要求从苏格兰返回南非，被迫面对家人的暴力历史以及自己的同谋。 Mercia是一名有色人种的大学讲师，自南非过渡到民主制度之前就一直住在苏格兰的格拉斯哥，并由她的长期伴侣Craig留给了一个年轻女子。小说的当前细节详述了梅西娅与她的哥哥杰克和他的妻子西尔维维的交往。食物成为两个女人表现自己身份的方式。但是，由于食物既是个人差异又是文化差异的标志，因此Wicomb对食物的描述不佳，这同时破坏了这种表现。我将展示如何将食物表示为不可思议的事物，从而使Mercia重新审视她与家庭概念的关系，并重新构造她对个人身份的理解，以及使她与更普遍的文化身份感保持一致。因此，维康姆通过食物的展示来证明文化本质主义观念中固有的暴力。

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