03613nam 2200553 450 991082250900332120230801231817.03-8382-5978-5(CKB)2670000000547979(EBL)3029492(SSID)ssj0001469571(PQKBManifestationID)11835895(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001469571(PQKBWorkID)11536577(PQKB)11099227(MiAaPQ)EBC2056707(MiAaPQ)EBC5782041(Au-PeEL)EBL5782041(OCoLC)903975200(EXLCZ)99267000000054797920190619d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExcess and embodiment in contemporary women's writing /Zeynep Zeren AtayurtStuttgart :Ibidem Verlag,2012.1 online resource (212 p.)Studies in English literaturesDescription based upon print version of record.3-89821-978-X Includes bibliographical references.""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Difference of the Different: Challenges to the Homogenisation of â€?Fatnessâ€? in Contemporary Western Culture""; ""1 â€?A comic turn, turned seriousâ€?: Reading the Female Embodiment in Romance, the Trickster and the Cyborg in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil""; ""2 â€?I still think it was poeticâ€?: The Poetics and Politics of Hyperbole in Sexing the Cherry""; ""3 Mothers, Daughters and Excess in Lady Oracle and Sweet Death""""3.1 â€?The outline of my former body still surrounded me like a mistâ€?: Traumatic Resonances of â€?Excessâ€? in Lady Oracle""""3.1.1 â€?Obesityâ€?, Trauma, and its Manifestations within the Mother-Daughter Dyad""; ""3.1.2 From â€?Fatâ€? to â€?Thinâ€?: Reversals, Reconciliations, and Confrontations""; ""3.2 â€?I know what I look like. Itâ€?s all planned, calculated, willedâ€?: The Revenge Narrative of â€?Excessâ€? in Sweet Death""; ""3.2.1 Accessing the Private through Writing of â€?Excessâ€?""; ""3.2.2 Tensions in the Mother-Daughter Dyad and Desire for Power""; ""Conclusion""""â€?I am sorry I am so fatâ€?: A Narrative of â€?Excessâ€? in Fat Girl: A True Story""""Bibliography""; ""Primary Sources""; ""Secondary Sources""; ""Internet Resources""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,Studies in English literatures.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.820.99287Atayurt Zeynep Zeren1723492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822509003321Excess and embodiment in contemporary women's writing4124796UNINA