INGESTION‚ DIGESTION AND REVULSION OF FOOD AND CULTURE IN ANITA DESAI’S FASTING‚ FEASTING T. RAVICHANDRAN* ABSTRACT This article attempts a cultural study offood and eating habits in Anita Desai’s Booker Prize short-listed novel‚ Fasting‚ Feasting. It shows how the ingestion offood affects acculturation process both in India and America in a multicultural context. Considering Foucault’s view that discourse is involved in the exertion of power‚ some of the discourses from the novel are scrutinised
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Massachusetts. Despite Uma’s thirst for knowledge‚ she is removed from the convent school she adores in order to care for her new baby brother‚ Arun‚ as well as her parents. Uma is seen as deprived of luxuries as the word ’Fasting’ expresses her deprivation whilst ’Feasting’ is associated with all those things that are being enjoyed by other characters of the story. For example‚Arun is send off to America later on in order to persue his studies fhjhjghjgigsdfghjkjgfdkjhgfddyifyuyughgkvjyugihyfytrraiha
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Book Report Fasting and Feasting The book “Fasting and Feasting” revolves around two families‚ one that lives in India the other in America. The author Anita Desai contrasts the two families. The book focuses on the social role of the woman in the household and the Indian traditions that keep them there. The main character of the book is an Indian woman that is not pretty‚ smart‚ or confident. The story follows her throughout her life and chronicles the struggles she has‚ her failures and
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By reading this novel I have made another conscious effort on understanding and appreciating the Indian authors…and it has paid off…Indian authors have a very desi feeling to the whole storyline which makes it easy to relate to…but then there is a distinct disadvantage to it as well…the outsider who reads this book may find it difficult to comprehend the situations‚ dilemma’s and the undercurrent….also there is a conscious effort on showing the negatives more than the positive… Coming to the novel
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Fasting‚ Feasting is a wonderful novel of two parts‚ running from the heart of a close-knit Indian household‚ with its restrictions and prejudices‚ its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food‚ to the cool centre of an American family. Uma‚ the plain spinster daughter of the Indian family‚ is trapped at home‚ smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions‚ unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna‚ who brings off a good marriage‚ and brother Arun‚ the disappointing son and heir who
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In Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai‚ the characters‚ Uma‚ Aruna‚ Anamika‚ Arun‚ Melanie and Rod suffer from entrapment as an inescapable fact in their lives in many senses. On the one hand‚ Uma is suppressed‚ repressed and imprisoned‚ she is a reluctant victim of entrapment at home‚” She walks off to her room and shuts the door behind her. She knows that when she shuts the door mama and Papa immediately become suspicious”. Uma is not able to have some privacy even at her own home‚ her parents
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What do you learn about MamaPapa (their attitudes and beliefs) from Part One of Fasting Feasting and how far do you think they are responsible for the way their children’s lives turn out to be? In Part One of Fasting Feasting‚ MamaPapa was seen to have a strong preference for sons over daughters‚ a strong opposition against women going out to work instead of staying at home to take care of the household as well as a strong opposition against any forms of religion. While their attitude and beliefs
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Syllabus Cambridge International A & AS Level Travel and Tourism Syllabus code 9395 For examination in June and November 2013 Contents Cambridge International A & AS Level Travel and Tourism Syllabus code 9395 1. Introduction ..................................................................................... 2 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Why choose Cambridge? Why choose Cambridge International A & AS Level Travel and Tourism? Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) How
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Essay "Fasting‚ Feasting" is a novel written by Anita Desai. This book is divided in two parts‚ one part from an India family point of view‚ and the other from an American family perspective. The title of this novel is greatly interesting because it is in two parts too. Fasting which means abstaining from all food‚ and feasting which means to eat rich and abundant meal. After reading the book‚ we can immediately say that "Fasting" corresponds to Uma’s point of view (India) and "Feasting" is from
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Fasting‚ Feasting – Anita Desai January 27‚ 2008 by lizzysiddal 2007 was the year in which I failed to finish the Indian novels I started. I read 2 and faltered at the 500 page mark in both. I found Vikram Chandra’s amalgam of literary fiction and crime in Sacred Games remarkably tedious. But my failure with Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy was downright weird. An absolute 5-star epic‚ I was enjoying it. Unfortunately I had listened to an abridged audio a few years before‚ so I knew where it was
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