Abstract
ABSTRACT Considering the questions bound with modern problems of the post-human literature (re)readings, this essay tries to indicate the role of food culture in determining the human-animal relation on the basis of two literary works by the Dutch writer Albert Helman: Mijn aap schreit and Mijn aap lacht. The leading methods are narratological analysis as described by Mieke Bal and William Nelles, as well as some close reading postulates. In the analysis I consider the role of food in both of the stories. I try to answer such questions as: What does a monkey eat? Who decides what a monkey should eat? Is there any symbolic role of food? Are there any food-taboos, especially ones bound with the human-animal relation?
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