Volume V Special Issue III August 2025

Name of Author : V.Deepika, Dr.J.Sobhana Devi

Title of the paper : Edible Words: Culinary Narratives and the Changing Landscape of Literature

Abstract: This paper analyzes the performative power of food in crafting gendered selves and cultural stories across literary traditions, and it analyzes The Gastronomical Me Fisher, The Edible Woman Atwood, Recipe for a Perfect Wife Brown, and Serving Crazy with Curry Malladi. Through a feminist literary theory and an engagement with cultural and food studies, this analysis demonstrates how food narratives act as sites of symbolic resistance, memory, and identity construction. Methodologically, the essay relies on close textual analysis to map how food functions as metaphor and narrative form across memoir, feminist fiction, and diasporic writing. Particular emphasis is placed on how these texts record changing cultural expectations for womens roles between the mid 20th century and the digital era. The thesis holds that food writing develops from intimate personal chronicle to a dense vehicle for commenting on domesticity, consumerism, and postcolonial identity. In doing this, it places culinary literature at the center of larger concerns over gender, form, and literary transformation.

Keywords : Culinary Literature, Food Narratives, Feminist Literary Criticism, Gender and Identity, Diaspora, Memoir and Fiction, Cultural Memory, Domestic Space

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Page Number : 278-284