Friday essay: the meaning of food in crime fiction
- Written by M. Jean Anderson, Associate Professor / Reader in French, Victoria University of Wellington
Food can serve many functions in crime fiction, from being used directly as a weapon to expressing cultural belonging, gender or class. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA
In English, we might claim we could “murder a good steak”. Italian and Spanish speakers might “kill for a coffee”, and Germans refer to acute hunger as Mor...
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