LEADER 00970cam2 2200277 450 001 E600200051256 005 20201221172126.0 100 $a20090709d1987 |||||ita|0103 ba 101 $aita 102 $aIT 200 1 $a1$eAntichita e Medioevo$fGiovanni Reale$gDario Antiseri 205 $a9 ed. 210 $aBrescia$cLa Scuola$d1987 215 $aXIX, 541 p.$cill.$d24 cm 461 1$1001E600200051255$12000 $a<>pensiero occidentale dalle origini ad oggi : corso di filosofia per i licei classici e scientifici 700 1$aReale$b, Giovanni$3AF00005726$4070$0159977 702 1$aAntiseri, Dario$3AF00003586$4070 801 0$aIT$bUNISOB$c20201221$gRICA 850 $aUNISOB 852 $aUNISOB$j100$m34589 912 $aE600200051256 940 $aM 102 Monografia moderna SBN 941 $aM 957 $a100$b002254$i-1$gSi$d34589$racquisto$1massimo$2UNISOB$3UNISOB$420090709081433.0$520201221172059.0$6Alfano 996 $a1$91629058 997 $aUNISOB LEADER 05490nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910453071503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0928-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209281 035 $a(CKB)2550000001108859 035 $a(EBL)1336273 035 $a(OCoLC)855504862 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949977 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12320513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949977 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11004778 035 $a(PQKB)10759003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1336273 035 $a(OCoLC)854585589$z(OCoLC)855504862$z(OCoLC)978533397$z(OCoLC)978905209 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209281 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1336273 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10738843 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508946 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001108859 100 $a20130628d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDistorted bodies and suffering souls$b[electronic resource] $ewomen in Australian fiction, 1984-1994 /$fChantal Kwast-Greff 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 225 1 $aCross / cultures ;$v160 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3662-1 311 $a1-299-77695-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- ?Women are Not Maniacs by Nature?: Of Patriarchy, Colonization, and the Church. A Complex Web of Systematic Oppression. Beauty and the Beast -- Fathers and Husbands: Of Power and Contempt. Big Bad Wolves and Sex. Virgins. Baddies and Daddies. Mothers. Daughters. Incest -- Victims: The Other and the Self: A Conclusion of Sorts. Women, Victims of Themselves -- Suffering Souls and Distorted Bodies: Of Dolls, Puppets, and Masters and Slaves. Dream-Paradise. Private Ceremonies and Rituals. Saints, Angels and Food. Wrist-Cutters and Others. Wounds and Blood and Baby-Killers -- Unacceptable Behaviours and Their Cures: Unacceptable Behaviours ? Says Who? Cures: The Good Fuck and Pull Up Your Socks. Doctors and Hospital. And Patriarchy. -- Women Write About Women: About Writing Madness. Text and Manipulations. Langage and Voice, Frames and Boxes. The Mirror and the text. Écriture féminine -- A Risky Business: Of Puppets and Puppet-Masters. Writers with a Mission -- Writing: Mad Women in Australia Today -- Women Who Fight Win. Eventually. It is Good to Be a Woman -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aChaos. Pain. Self-mutilation. Women starve themselves. They burn or slash their own flesh or their babies? throats, and slam their newborns against walls. Their bodies are the canvases on which the suffering of the soul carves itself with knife and razor. In Australian fiction written by women between 1984 and 1994, female characters inscribe their inner chaos on their bodies to exert whatever power they have over themselves. Their self-inflicted pain is both reaction and language, the bodily sign not only of their enfeeblement but also to a certain extent of their empowerment, of themselves and their world. The texts considered in this book ? chiefly by Margaret Coombs, Kate Grenville, Fiona Place, Penelope Rowe, Leone Sperling, and Amy Witting ? function as both defiance and ac¬ceptance of prevailing discourses of femininity and patriarchy, between submission and a possible future. The narratives of anorexia, bulimia, fatness, self-mutilation, incest, and murder shock the reader into an understanding of deeper meanings of body and soul, and prompt a tentative interpretation of fiction in relation to the world of ?real? women and men in contemporary (white) Australia. This is affective literature with the reader in voyeuristic complicity. Holding up the mirror of fiction, the women writers act perforce as a social lever, their narratives as Bildungsromane . But there is a risk, that of reinforcing stereotypes and codes of conduct which, supposedly long gone, still represent women as victims. Why are the female characters (self-)destroyers and victims? Why are they not heroes, saviours or conquerors? If women read about women / themselves and feel pity for the Other they read about, they will also feel pity for themselves: there is little happiness in being a woman. But infanticide and distorting the body are problem-solving behaviours. In truth, the bodies of the female characters bear the marks and scars of the history of their mothers and the history of their grandmothers ? indeed, that of their own: the history of survivors. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v160. 606 $aAustralian fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnorexia nervosa in literature 606 $aInfanticide in literature 606 $aSelf-mutilation in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAustralian fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnorexia nervosa in literature. 615 0$aInfanticide in literature. 615 0$aSelf-mutilation in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a823.9140992870994 700 $aKwast-Greff$b Chantal$0991725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453071503321 996 $aDistorted bodies and suffering souls$92269676 997 $aUNINA