| Title: | The Image of the East-Central European in Rose Tremain’s The Road Home. Food, Materialism and Capitalist Faith in a Culture Clash |
| Author: | Ágnes Harasztos |
| Publication: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 7 (1), p. 83-94 |
| p-ISSN: | 2068-2956 |
| e-ISSN: | 2067-5151 |
| Publisher: | Scientia Kiadó |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | In Rose Tremain’s The Road Home, the culture clash of the British and the East-Central European is portrayed through a complex symbolism centred on images of food, consumption and waste. This literary representation may shed light on British literary auto-images, as well as hetero-images of the Eastern European immigrant. The novel’s presentation of this culture of the parties. Food and material provide the symbolic sphere where the relationship between Britain and East-Central Europe is characterized in terms of capitalist worldview as opposed to a post-communist existence. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the most important intertext for Tremain’s novel. Hamlet is obsessed with the vulnerability of material in light of the spiritual value attached to it in the form of human soul. Stephen Greenblatt’s ideas on food, waste and the Christian belief in divine existence residing in material objects – ideas that originate in early modern times – shed light on the motif of material and food in The Road Home. Seen through the symbolism of food and the idea of differing values being attached to matter, the narrative identity of Lev, the protagonist of Tremain’s work, experiences drastic change due to his encounter with the capitalist, British ‘other’. |
| Key words: | British East-Central Europe novel, symbol of food, Tremain, Greenblatt, capitalism, material, representation |
| Language: | English |
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