Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women`s Writing Paperback / softback
by Zeynep Atayurt
Part of the Studies in English Literatures series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 abnormality' or a signifier of a personality defect' in contemporary Western society.
This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat, and Judith Moore, whose texts offer a distinct literary response to the rigidly homogeneous and limiting representations of fatness, while prompting heterogeneous approaches to reading the excessive' female embodiment.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:07/12/2021
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- ISBN:9783898219785
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:07/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783898219785
