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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FOOD, BODY & POWER in Breath Eyes and Memory…

- - - - Is raped in corn fields at 16
    - - Is "tested" by her mother
        
        Both as a result find no pleasure from sex (yet participate anyways)
  - - - "Loses" Sophie to Joseph, Sophie fails "testing one day,
    - - `Atie becomes an alcoholic, Martine loses purity when raped
- - - - Bulimic
        
        "I waited for him to fall asleep , then went to the kitchen. I ate every scrap of the dinner leftovers, then went to the bathroom, locked the door, and purged all of the food out of my body." (CH 30, pg 197)
        
        Abundance of food in America
        
        A "privileged" display of oppression
- - - - "Marc is one of those men who will never recover from not eating his manman's cooking." said my mother. "If he could get her out of her grave to make him dinner he would do it." (CH.7 pg 76)