A taste of Europe: Eating/reading between the lines of the German–Italian failed love story |
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Authors: | Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager |
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Institution: | Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA |
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Abstract: | This essay examines the topicality of intra-European intercultural tensions, focusing on German–Italian relations. Grounded in Burke’s interpretation of literature as “equipment for living,” this project uses Marisa Fenoglio’s Never without a woman—a novel about an Italian Gastarbeiter in Germany—as a case study and suggests a critical cultural analysis of German–Italian food-related rhetoric as reflective and constructive of German–Italian interculturality. This essay invites a nuanced understanding of the rhetoric of European foodways as representative of the contemporary European culture and intercultural communication because we are what we eat. |
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Keywords: | Rhetoric of food interculturality Germany Italy transnational Europe |
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