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Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing (Studies in English Literatures, Band 17) - Softcover

Buch 8 von 11: Studies in English Literatures

Atayurt, Zeynep Zeren

 
9783898219785: Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing (Studies in English Literatures, Band 17)
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ISBN 10: 389821978X ISBN 13: 9783898219785
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
ibidem-Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
389821978X
ISBN 13 
9783898219785
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
212
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