食物的意象在安杰拉·卡特20世纪70年代的创作中占据了重要的地位。在卡特的笔下,它变成了批判旧有体制和构建自身理论话语的利器。食物始终与性和权力关系联系在一起:既可以充当压迫性权力关系的中介,亦可以充当权力和自我认同的表征,还可以象征权力关系的消解;食物既可以充当女性遭受父权暴君掠夺的证据,亦可以由被掠夺的女性或自我需要完善的男性来充当,还可以象征男女两性的解放与和解。 The imagery of food occupies an important place in the creation of Angela Carter in the 1970s. In Carter’s pen, it becomes a weapon to criticize the old system and build its own theoretical discourse. Food has always been associated with sexual and power relations: it can serve as an intermediary of the relationship of oppressive power, as a token of power and self-identity, as a symbol of the dissolution of power relations, of food as a predatory woman, Evidence can also be taken by predatory women or men who need self-improvement, and can also symbolize the liberation and reconciliation of men and women.