LEADER 02267nam 2200421 450 001 9910816968103321 005 20240102112710.0 010 $a1-922146-98-6 010 $a1-922146-97-8 010 $a9781922146984 010 $a9781922146939 035 $a(CKB)3710000000473459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4411304 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4411304 035 $a(OCoLC)1036783855 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000473459 100 $a20190123d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSmall acts of disappearance $eessays in hunger /$fFiona Wright 210 1$aArtarmon, Australia :$cGiramondo Publishing,$d[2015] 210 4$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) 330 $aSmall Acts of Disappearance?describes the author?s affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the author?s motives and actions.The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wright?s life: at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine travel writing, memoir and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise Glück deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, the observation of detail and the humour which is so compelling in Wright?s poetry. 606 $aAnorexia nervosa$xPatients$vBiography 615 0$aAnorexia nervosa$xPatients 676 $a616.852 700 $aWright$b Fiona$01609878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816968103321 996 $aSmall acts of disappearance$93937346 997 $aUNINA