Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing - Studies in English Literatures - Zeynep Zeren Atayurt - Books - ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Chri - 9783898219785 - August 1, 2011
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Zeynep Zeren Atayurt
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing - Studies in English Literatures

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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 womens 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.

210 pages, black & white illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 1, 2011
ISBN13 9783898219785
Publishers ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Chri
Pages 210
Dimensions 150 × 210 × 12 mm   ·   280 g
Language English  
Series Editor Melikoglu, Koray

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