Tianqi Yang
Doctoral Student in Literature - Tianqi’s thesis is entitled 'Food in Modern Indian Literature from 1947 to the Present Day: Gender, Diaspora, and Caste'
Research project title
Food in Modern Indian Literature from 1947 to the Present Day: Gender, Diaspora, and Caste
Supervisors
Prof Neelam Srivastava + Prof James Procter
Contact details
Email: t.yang19@newcastle.ac.uk
Research interests
- postcolonial literature
- food writing
- culinary studies
- cookbooks
A brief outline of my research project
My research is based on food narratives in modern Indian literature to examine the relationship of both culinary and alimentary aspects of food to identity in terms of gender, caste and diaspora, intending to answer the following questions: how food narratives delicately braided into a literary text, including food images and scenes of preparation and consumption, act as metaphors from a semiotic perspective, and how they help to construct collective identity and contextually respond to the reality. Besides, my research intends to include not only Anglophone texts but also Hindi texts as both comparison and complementation to explore the dynamics between these two official languages in India and to better locate Anglophone literature under the umbrella of “Indian literature”.
Research activities
Publications
Jia, Yan, and Yang, Tianqi. “2022年国际布克奖得主、印地语作家吉丹贾丽·斯里专访 [Interview with Hindi Writer Geetanjali Shree, the Winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize]”, 南亚学[South Asian Review], vol.1, 2023, pp.126-136, 227-228. (in Chinese)
Yang, Tianqi. “湿婆‘半女之主’形象图像学研究 [An Iconographic Study of ‘Ardhanārīśvara’]”, 北大南亚东南亚研究[Peking University South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies], vol.4, 2024, pp.137-144. (in Chinese)
Research Groups
Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group (NPRG)