Abstract
AbstractIn The Heart Goes Last, food imagery and food metaphors are used to illustrate the genre switches: dystopian reality is illustrated by hunger, scarcity of satisfying food, dry and stale leftovers of junk food, while one of the novel’s master strokes of grotesquery is to have its centre of evil, Positron prison, serve haute cuisine. The chapter discusses the food imagery in Consilience/Positron prison as it points to several functions of food in the text: it helps to measure time through the very controlled rituals of breakfast, lunches, dinners and special occasions (like a funeral or a date night), and its quality illustrates the atmosphere as well as the relationships between characters.KeywordsMargaret Atwood The Heart Goes Last Junk foodPrison foodAlcoholFarceDystopia
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