Food as a Transcultural Metaphor-Food Imagery in Contemporary Multicultural Women Writing in Canada

Bc. Katarína Hinnerová

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

The thesis focuses on food imagery as an efficient means of conveying contemporary discourse on ethnocultural identities which is tending towards transcultural perspectives, and it highlights food’s potential to establish the awareness of diversity, challenge exclusionary attitudes and stimulate cross-cultural interaction. Observations and conclusions are based on the analysis of Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms, which is set in the context of Canadian sociocultural milieu, and also in the context of "food" writing of several other contemporary multicultural women writers of Canada.

Keywords

food imagery, transculturalism, multiculturalism, women writers, Canada, identity

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 4. 6. 2007

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 13. 6. 2007
• Vedoucí: Mgr. Klára Kolinská, M.A.

Masarykova univerzita

Filozofická fakulta

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Filologie / Anglický jazyk a literatura