Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing - Couverture souple

Atayurt, Zeynep Zeren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 389821978X ISBN 13 : 9783898219785

Editeur : ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Zeynep Z. Atayurt received her MA and PhD degrees in English at the University of Leeds, UK. She is currently working in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ankara University in Turkey. Her research interests include literary and visual representations of forms of embodiment in contemporary Anglo-American culture and literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 389821978X
• ISBN 13: 9783898219785
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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