3) 'Voice-Niche-Brand' : Marketing Asian-Australianness Merlinda Bobis,Ĥ5 2008 Food, Precious Food : Migrating the Palate. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate.Īnd once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 1-19 ) Abstract 'This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story.

The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story Merlinda Bobis,Īustralian Literary Studies, October vol.ģ 2010 (p.

In this paper I analyse the way in which the different symbols that the novel uses, food being one of the most important, contribute to giving it a most original and coherent structure, and also draw the reader's attention towards some of the most outstanding messages that the novel seems to put forward, namely, the need for love and dialogue between different individuals and cultures, and for a multicultural and rather more cohesive model to be advocated in contemporary societies. As she cooks and eats, or dreams of cooking and eating, other love stories unravel in Remedios Street, the street she lives in, significantly placed between an active volcano and a Catholic church. The myth of the banana heart inspires twelve-year-old Nenita, who will try to find the perfect balance between love and anger, to appease her family's hunger and, which is even more important, to win her violent mother's love. What at first seems to be a collection of exotic recipes turns out to be a touching, funny and elegiac story. 194-208 ) Abstract Banana Heart Summer (2005) is a truly original novel. Merlinda Bobis's 'Banana Heart Summer' : Recipes to Work through Trauma and Appease the Human Heart's Everlasting Hunger M.

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