Perspectives

To be able to engage in a more meaningful conversation about the text, we recommend that you also put “Eating Sugar” by Catherine Merriman into perspective, by reflecting on literary period and similar works by other autho…

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Literary period

Published in 2001, the short story is a piece of contemporary, postmodernist fiction. Postmodernism defines the last seventy years in literature. This implies that, as a literary movement, Postmodernism has various traits. “Eating Sugar…

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of xenophobia you might find it interesting to also read the poem “Mr and Mrs Xenophobia” by John Agard (Worlds of English, p. 72) which focuses on an older British couple who dislikes the idea of interacting with people from other countries and cultures.

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