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Excess and embodiment in contemporary women's writing /
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnorm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart, Germany :
Ibidem-Verlag,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in English literatures ;
Volume 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Difference of the Different: Challenges to the Homogenisation of �Fatness� in Contemporary Western Culture""; ""1 �A comic turn, turned serious�: Reading the Female Embodiment in Romance, the Trickster and the Cyborg in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil""; ""2 �I still think it was poetic�: The Poetics and Politics of Hyperbole in Sexing the Cherry""; ""3 Mothers, Daughters and Excess in Lady Oracle and Sweet Death""
- ""3.1 �The outline of my former body still surrounded me like a mist�: Traumatic Resonances of �Excess� in Lady Oracle""""3.1.1 �Obesity�, Trauma, and its Manifestations within the Mother-Daughter Dyad""; ""3.1.2 From �Fat� to �Thin�: Reversals, Reconciliations, and Confrontations""; ""3.2 �I know what I look like. It�s all planned, calculated, willed�: The Revenge Narrative of �Excess� in Sweet Death""; ""3.2.1 Accessing the Private through Writing of �Excess�""; ""3.2.2 Tensions in the Mother-Daughter Dyad and Desire for Power""; ""Conclusion""
- ""€?I am sorry I am so fat�: A Narrative of �Excess� in Fat Girl: A True Story""""Bibliography""; ""Primary Sources""; ""Secondary Sources""; ""Internet Resources""