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(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach

(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach

Rivera, Serena J.
Kiviat, Niki

Hardcover

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367443074
ISBN13: 9780367443078
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2020
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works. The collection ultimately redefines disorder, removing the pathology and stigma assigned to acts of non-normative eating. In so doing, the essays deem taboo practices of food consumption, rejection and avoidance as expressions of resistance and defiance in the face of restrictive sociocultural, political, and economic normativities. As a result, disorder no longer equates to out of order, implying a sense of brokenness, but is instead envisioned as an act against the dominant of order of operations. The collection therefore shifts critical focus from the eater as the embodiment of disorder to the problematic norms that defines behaviors as such.

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