Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment - Lillian R. Furst - Bücher - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271025599 - 15. September 1992
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Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment

Lillian R. Furst

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Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment

This book explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to Toni Morrison, in American, British, and European texts.

The underlying, unifying theme is the role of eating choices as a means of self-empowerment. The texts discussed are different in genre (narrative, drama, epic and lyric poetry, and an autobiographical memoir), but they all reveal, in whatever setting, the individual's longing for autonomy of some kind. In many socially restrictive situations, eating patterns are the only choice available, especially for women. So disorderly eating becomes a tool for self-assertion as a rebellion against an unacceptable dominant ethos.

Disorderly Eaters reveals that creative writers were, by sheer observation, aware of the dynamics of eating disorders long before the medical community came to recognize and institutionalize the syndromes in the nineteenth century. The literary portrayals analyzed here could act as illuminating exemplars for those involved in the treatment of eating disorders and those who suffer from them, too.


252 pages

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 15. September 1992
ISBN13 9780271025599
Verlag Pennsylvania State University Press
Seitenanzahl 252
Maße 152 × 229 × 17 mm   ·   413 g
Sprache Englisch