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Cooking and Eating Your Own Stories: (Metaphorical) Cannibalism in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride

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Author	Labudova, Katarina
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood exposes a dangerous protagonist, Zenia, who is metaphorically introduced through images of drinking blood and eating raw meat. Her victims, Tony, Charis, and Roz, are associated with nurturing and nourishing foods: they eat together to comfort each other. Sarah Sceats’s, Fiona Tolan’s, and Jean Wyatt’s studies on feminism and female bonding in the novel have influenced this article, though it also questions the established opposition between the villainess Zenia and her victims: Zenia’s dark appetites are their own tastes for blood, revenge, and power. Zenia acts as a liberating and empowering ingredient. This article discusses the link between storytelling and cooking. I suggest that Zenia’s creative story-telling forces the women to acknowledge the darker dimension of their repressed fragments and past. Thus, they become independent and creative storytellers and cooks, just like Zenia.
Related Links	http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/zaa.2017.65.issue-4/zaa-2017-0038/zaa-2017-0038.xml
Ending Page	427
Page Count	15
Starting Page	413
ISSN	00442305
e-ISSN	21964726
DOI	10.1515/zaa-2017-0038
Journal	Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	65
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2017-12-20
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik Cultural Studies Eating Cooking Creative Atwood Metaphorical Storytelling Margaret Robber Bride Journal: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Vol- 65
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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