Atayurt Zeynep
Atayurt Zeynep - Excess And Embodiment In Contemporary Women`s Writing - Paperback
Atayurt Zeynep - Excess And Embodiment In Contemporary Women`s Writing - Paperback
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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.
Title: Excess And Embodiment In Contemporary Women`s Writing
Author(s): Atayurt Zeynep
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783898219785
Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Series: Studies in English Literatures
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
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.
Title: Excess And Embodiment In Contemporary Women`s Writing
Author(s): Atayurt Zeynep
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783898219785
Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Series: Studies in English Literatures
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
