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Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie

Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie FEATURED AUTHOR--ROBERT MORGAN Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie_ Patrick Bizzaro I think about somebody and start trying to imagine how they would talk. How would somebody in this time, in this condition, with these problems talk? How would they tell their story? Robert Morgan, interview JULIE TALKS ABOUT FOOD: she uses language to describe the work required to produce and prepare it. But so fixated is she on food that food talk in Gap Creek rises above the merely literal and reveals the interpretations of day-to-day events, the mind-wonderings, and even the spiritual imaginings of the story's narrator, the young Julie. Food, both commodity and metaphor in the novel, becomes a linguistic sign so common in Julie's use of language that it enables Morgan to solve many of the problems usually associated with a man's attempt to narrate a novel through the eyes of a young woman. No one should have to argue for the value of food. Everyone needs it. But food is so valuable in Gap Creek that it may easily serve the purpose we customarily associate with money. There is nothing inherent about food that makes it a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie

Bizzaro, Patrick.
Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (3) – Jan 8, 2004
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FEATURED AUTHOR--ROBERT MORGAN Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie_ Patrick Bizzaro I think about somebody and start trying to imagine how they would talk. How would somebody in this time, in this condition, with these problems talk? How would they tell their story? Robert Morgan, interview JULIE TALKS ABOUT FOOD: she uses language to describe the work required to produce and prepare it. But so fixated is she on food that food talk in Gap Creek rises above the merely literal and reveals the interpretations of day-to-day events, the mind-wonderings, and even the spiritual imaginings of the story's narrator, the young Julie. Food, both commodity and metaphor in the novel, becomes a linguistic sign so common in Julie's use of language that it enables Morgan to solve many of the problems usually associated with a man's attempt to narrate a novel through the eyes of a young woman. No one should have to argue for the value of food. Everyone needs it. But food is so valuable in Gap Creek that it may easily serve the purpose we customarily associate with money. There is nothing inherent about food that makes it a

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Published: Jan 8, 2004

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