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This paper discusses Marion Halligan's non-fiction, particularly her writing
on food: Those Women who go to Hotels, Eat my Words, Cockles of the Heart, Out of
the Picture, and The Taste of Memory. The focus is on how Halligan deconstructs and
reconstruct a mythology of food, in a Barthesian sense, revealing the contradictions at
the heart of food mythology. The texts lay bare Halligan's own personal and at times
idiosyncratic mythology of food, where food is much more that just that. Venturing into
areas of autobiography, memory, travel, place and gardens, this paper discusses how
Halligan's mythologizing of food doubles up, especially in her most recent food
writing, as a rethinking and celebration of suburbia, which is figured as a site where
nature and culture meet, and where paradise can be regained.
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Mythologizing Food : Marion Halligan’s Non-Fiction
Coolabah
Subjects:
- Eat My Words 1990 single work prose
- Cockles of the Heart 1996 single work prose
- The Taste of Memory 2004 single work prose
- Those Women Who Go to Hotels 1997 single work autobiography
- Out of the Picture 1996 selected work short story autobiography prose
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