Hannah Khim de Vera

Bread as Metaphor, Class as Destiny: A Postcolonial and Bourdieusian Reading of N. V. M. Gonzalez’s Bread of Salt

This study analyzes the short fiction Bread of Salt written by N. V. M. Gonzalez (1958) as a literary representation of social class development and colonial cultural influence in the Philippines under American rule. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and symbolic capital, the paper shows that the narrator...