Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities

Name: Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities
Author: Atik, Egem

İsim	Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities
Yazar	Atik, Egem
Basım Tarihi:	2023-08
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Bulimia, Commensality, Elif Shafak, Non-belonging, Social bulimia
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0950-236X
Kayıt Numarası	d5d12843-8a8f-42e4-81cf-9e09376eb7aa
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2023-08
Örnek Metin	In her novel The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004), Elif Shafak explores the theme of alienation by portraying a group of individuals who live in the U.S. and struggle to adapt to the American lifestyle. This article focuses on Alegre, a Mexican-American girl with bulimia. Surrounded by her Chicana aunts and foreign friends, Alegre is forced to adopt American culture, yet she is also asked not to sever her ties with her Mexican roots. I argue that Alegre's relationship with food mirrors her connection to the American and Mexican cultures: by gorging and disgorging herself with food, she challenges the frontiers that separate cultural identities and the borders that divide the inside and the outside of the self. Alegre considers the kitchen her native soil as it provides her with the space to challenge the boundaries of her own body and identity. The food she cooks there brings different identities together over one meal, where they realise they have much more in common than they expected. Thus, she creates an environment for others to find a chance to question the boundaries that restrict their identities.
DOI	10.1080/0950236X.2023.2243906

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Eating and cooking beyond the borders in Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities

Yazar Atik, Egem

Basım Tarihi 2023-08

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Bulimia, Commensality, Elif Shafak, Non-belonging, Social bulimia

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0950-236X

Kayıt Numarası d5d12843-8a8f-42e4-81cf-9e09376eb7aa

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2023-08

Örnek Metin In her novel The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004), Elif Shafak explores the theme of alienation by portraying a group of individuals who live in the U.S. and struggle to adapt to the American lifestyle. This article focuses on Alegre, a Mexican-American girl with bulimia. Surrounded by her Chicana aunts and foreign friends, Alegre is forced to adopt American culture, yet she is also asked not to sever her ties with her Mexican roots. I argue that Alegre's relationship with food mirrors her connection to the American and Mexican cultures: by gorging and disgorging herself with food, she challenges the frontiers that separate cultural identities and the borders that divide the inside and the outside of the self. Alegre considers the kitchen her native soil as it provides her with the space to challenge the boundaries of her own body and identity. The food she cooks there brings different identities together over one meal, where they realise they have much more in common than they expected. Thus, she creates an environment for others to find a chance to question the boundaries that restrict their identities.

DOI 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2243906