Cargando…
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 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Alemán |
| Publicado: |
Stuttgart :
Ibidem,
2011.
|
| Colección: | Studies in English literatures ;
17. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Dyad3.1.2 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.