Comiendo del mismo platomecanismos de exotización en la obra de Donna Leon

  1. Pascual Soler, María Nieves
Revista:
Dossiers feministes

ISSN: 1139-1219,  2340-4930

Any de publicació: 2013

Títol de l'exemplar: La cultura de las cocinas: género, comida e identidad

Número: 17

Pàgines: 111-127

Tipus: Article

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In «Murder on the Menu», Burton Smith expands on the long-held association between food and crime in literature: «right from the start there's been a curious link between food (and drink) and crime fiction». He is right but it is also true that food was never an essential ingredient in the formula and was reduced to the status of ornament. Since the 1980s, however, due to the relevance of Food Studies and the interest for the phenomenology of the body, food starts to matter. It propels the inquiry, contextualizes the action and creates verisimilitude. On this last aspect, Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe claims that food contributes to the realism of the mystery plot. Her opinion is embraced by Donna Leon when she writes that her detective is «an Italian, so that it would be extraordinary if he did not eat at least once a day. I follow him through his normal life; he talks to his kids, he talks to his wife, he goes about being a detective. But he also has to eat». If eating cultivates a sense of ordinariness it also donates a sense of extraordinariness to the text. Three are the strategies the author uses to create an air of exotic verisimilitude: Translation, transvestism and tradition.

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