Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
| Author/creator | Atayurt, Zeynep Zeren Author |
| Other author | Melikoglu, Koray Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag New York : Columbia University Press [Distributor] |
| Description | 212 p. 08.270 x 05.830 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | Studies in English Literatures Ser. 17 |
| Summary | Annotation 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783898219785 |
| ISBN | 389821978X (Trade Paper) Forthcoming |
| Standard identifier# | 9783898219785 |
| Stock number | 01367296 |
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