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Food or love? Motherıng, feedıng, eatıng and desıre ın fay weldon’s remember me

İlk romanlarının yayınlanmasından bu yana Fay Weldon, ataerkil toplumun gelenekselsınırlarında kalan günümüz kadın karakterinin kısıldığı kapanın baskın koşullarını öfkeyle eleştirenfeminist bir yazar olarak tanınır. Weldon’ın romanlarında kadınların durumuyla ilgili olsa da eleştirelanaliz gerektiren bağımsız tematik perspektifler de yer almaktadır. Bunların arasında Remember Me’nintemel izleği “yemek” ve “yemek tüketimi” olarak kabul edilebilir. Bu çalışma, romancının yemeğeverdiği yazınsal önemin etkilerini açığa çıkarmayı ve onu kadının özel ve toplumsal deneyimlerinin –kiromanda bunlar öz kimlik, sosyal etkileşim, karı-koca ve anne-çocuk ilişkileri, beslenme, aşk, arzu vecinsellik şeklinde ortaya çıkmaktadır- bir aracı haline getirmesinin önemini ortaya koymayı amaçlar.

Since the publication of her first novels, Fay Weldon has been continuously acclaimed asa feminist writer whose writings represent an angry retort at the oppressive conditions which trap thecontemporary female personality within the traditional boundaries of a patriarchal society. It may be so,but there are many other literary concerns in her novels which, although regard directly the status ofwomen, become independent thematic perspectives and as such deserve to be topics of critical interest.Among them, food and its consumption, which are the central themes of Remember Me. The presentstudy aims to disclose the ways in which the novelist confers literary significance to food and employs itas a means of rendering the private and social experience of women, which comprises, in the case ofthis novel, such issues as self-identity, social interaction, wife-husband and mother-child relations,nourishment, love, desire, and sexuality.

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