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Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity

Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity

Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women¿s Writing

Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
kategoria: Literary Studies, General, Reference Books
współautorzy: Petra M. Bagley Kathryn Robson Francesca Calamita
wydawnictwo: Peter Lang
ISBN / EAN: 9783034322003
język: angielski
data wydania: 30/11/2017
oprawa: miękka
wymiary: 15 x 22.5 x 1.7 cm
stron: 304
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
cena:463,10 zł
przewidywany czas sprowadzenia z zagranicy:
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Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the fictional portrayal of these self-destructive yet arguably self-empowering behaviours in contemporary French, German and Italian women¿s writing. Covering autobiography, fiction and autofiction, the chapters included here outline different aspects of the cultural encodings of anorexia in Europe today. Contributors analyse how literary texts not only recount but also interrogate wider cultural representations of eating disorders, particularly with regard to concepts of (gender) identity, the body, the relationship with the mother, and the relation between food and words. This volume seeks to draw out the multiple meanings of anorexia as both a rebellion against and conformity to dominant (and gendered) socio-political structures. It explores the ways in which contemporary women¿s novels and memoirs both describe and, importantly, also redefine eating disorders in present-day Europe.

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