(In)digestion in Literature and Film : A Transcultural Approach Hardback
Edited by Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
Part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
Hardback
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(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works.
The collection ultimately redefines disorder, removing the pathology and stigma assigned to acts of non-normative eating.
In so doing, the essays deem taboo practices of food consumption, rejection and avoidance as expressions of resistance and defiance in the face of restrictive sociocultural, political, and economic normativities.
As a result, disorder no longer equates to "out of order", implying a sense of brokenness, but is instead envisioned as an act against the dominant of order of operations.
The collection therefore shifts critical focus from the eater as the embodiment of disorder to the problematic norms that defines behaviors as such.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/05/2020
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- ISBN:9780367443078
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367443078
