Dấu Ấn Văn Hóa Ẩm Thực Nam Bộ trong Văn Xuôi Bình Nguyên Lộc

Abstract

Bình Nguyên Lộc is one of the outstanding and representative writers of Southern Vietnam during the period from 1954 to 1975. His stories strongly reflect the cultural characteristics of the Southern region, particularly its culinary culture. This article does not anlalyzes deeply the contents related to Southern Vietnamese culinary culture as manifested in the works of Bình Nguyên Lộc but primarily examines cuisine in its roles as a cultural symbol, cultural material, a site for expressing communal memories, and regional nuances. Placing the works of Bình Nguyên Lộc within the migration history of Vietnamese, in the space of cultural intersection and transformation, to evaluate the writer’s primary and distinctive cultural inspirations, and to further clarify the relationship between literature and culture, also represents a novel aspect of this article.