{"id":272,"date":"2026-05-25T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/?post_type=journal&#038;p=272"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:49:26","slug":"when-meals-become-manifestos-narrating-power-and-resistance-through-food-2","status":"publish","type":"journal","link":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/article\/when-meals-become-manifestos-narrating-power-and-resistance-through-food-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When Meals Become Manifestos: Narrating Power and Resistance through Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article aims to investigate literary representations of food function as narrative strategies<br \/>\nacross four diverse literary texts spanning from Renaissance to contemporary literature\u2014 Herman<br \/>\nMelville\u2019s \u201cBartleby, the Scrivener,\u201d George Orwell\u2019s Animal Farm, Christopher Marlowe\u2019s The<br \/>\nTragedy of Doctor Faustus, and Han Kang\u2019s The Vegetarian. Though distinct in genre and era, what<br \/>\nunites these works is the way they illustrate how the consumption or refraining of food operate as<br \/>\nnarrative devices through which structures of authority, social hierarchy, and resistance are<br \/>\narticulated across different historical and cultural contexts. Whether it is Bartleby\u2019s refusal to food<br \/>\nand Yeong-hye\u2019s vegetal transformation, or the overindulgence of the pigs, the extravagant<br \/>\nbanquets of the Pope and the gluttony of Faustus, the paper argues how these very different works<br \/>\nreveal one persistent literary motif which is the politics of food. Adopting a comparative<br \/>\nframework grounded in close textual analysis, the study examines how food moves beyond<br \/>\nsustenance and becomes a contested terrain through which relations of power are enacted,<br \/>\nresisted, and exposed.<br \/>\nKeywords: Food, resistance, power, capitalism, Marxism, vegetarianism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article-category":[40,47],"class_list":["post-272","journal","type-journal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article-category-praxis","article-category-volume-15-december-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/journal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}