Writing Size Zero

Name: Writing Size Zero
Brand: European Interuniversity Press
SKU: 9789052012827
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Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures

Autor: Isabelle Meuret

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: European Interuniversity Press

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Like hysteria, anorexia is a fin de sičcle pathology which fascinates and has reached epidemic propo...

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Autor

Isabelle Meuret

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2007

strony

294

EAN

9789052012827

ISBN

9789052012827

Enbook ID

10029779

Wydawca

European Interuniversity Press

Waga

420

Wymiary

220 x 152 x 21

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Like hysteria, anorexia is a fin de sičcle pathology which fascinates and has reached epidemic proportions at the turn of the millennium. Parallel to the development of the phenomenon, an important body of experiential texts has revealed its presence in various parts of the world. While the medical discourse is still struggling with this conundrum, literature gives way to different interpretations by revealing the interconnectedness between writing and starving. Both signifying practices are experiences of the limit where fluxes of particles - food, words - are in constant interaction. Unlike most contemporary readings of anorexia, this book offers an original insight into the creative process inherent to the pathology, which the author calls Writing Size Zero. Body of writing and writing of the body, as found in western and post-colonial texts, delineate an in-between space producing new epistemologies. Through a close reading of the semiotics of self-starvation, the author debunks the myth of anorexia as a mental disease of the West and insists on the variety of expressions and figurations inherent to the pathology. By providing a meaning to self-starvation, writing gives anorexia its ethics.

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