Likewise, the cultural and gender studies and semiotics are applied in the treatment of material. The researcher employed Freud and Lacan’s psychoanalyzes particularly on the pleasure and reality principles. The paper presents an analysis of the novel’s creative representation of food towards characters and their relationships with one another. As a contemporary novel, Banana Heart Summer depicts the material and nonmaterial culture of Region V known as the Bicol Region. This paper aims to unravel the culture of the Bicolanos as the theme highlighted in Merlinda Bobis’ Banana Heart Summer. Food and love may be extreme needs of humans, but the fulfillment of a human’s wants through food and love may help ease such societal problems. Accordingly, desire and longing result in societal problems. Food satisfies hunger and hunger obeys desire.
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