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Anorexia nervosa in literature

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Anorexia nervosa in literature --- Literature, Modern --- Body image in literature

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Pathologie fin de siècle, au même titre que l'hystérie avant elle, l'anorexie fascine et atteint des proportions épidémiques. Pourtant, le jeûne forcené a toujours existé, comme en attestent les récits bibliques et les témoignages d'époques anciennes. Affirmation d'une négation, quête d'absolu ou expérience intérieure du vide, l'anorexie est la proie de tant de discours qu'elle en devient mythologie. Le corps émacié en est la métaphore morte. Mais là où le discours médical s'épuise, la littérature offre de nouvelles interprétations au travers des figurations qu'elle propose. Moteur, remède ou conséquence de l'anorexie, l'écriture lui est intimement liée. Les deux pratiques, qui sont aussi deux expériences de la limite, se mêlent étrangement au point que l'anorexie apparaît comme une pathologie de l'écriture. Mais aussi, en conférant à l'anorexie le sens qui lui manquait, l'écriture lui donne son éthique. Ce périple à travers la littérature, des champions du jeûne aux artistes de la faim, de Kafka à Gide, en passant par Byron, Brontë, Woolf et bien d'autres, permet de définir une sémiotique de l'anorexie : ce que l'on appellera ici la taille zéro de l'écriture.

Anorexia nervosa in literature --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Anorexie mentale --- dans la littérature

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Chaos. 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.

Australian fiction --- Anorexia nervosa in literature. --- Infanticide in literature. --- Self-mutilation --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Australian literature --- Automutilation --- Self-harm (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injurious behavior (Self-mutilation) --- Self-injury (Self-mutilation) --- Malingering --- Mutilation --- Self-destructive behavior --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- In literature. --- Self-mutilation in literature.

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In this passionate merging of personal history and scholarship, Leslie Heywood reveals the "anorexic logic" central to Western high culture. This logic privileges mind over body, masculine over feminine, individual over collective, control over emotion, and a realm of transcendence over the haphazardness of daily life. As clinical studies of anorexia show, this is the very logic adopted by millions of young American women today, to devastating effect. In literature this anorexic logic is embodied in high modernism, as Heywood shows in discussions of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood reveals an author struggling to develop a clean, spare, "anorexic" style in the midst of a shatteringly messy emotional life. As Heywood points out, students are trained in the aesthetic of high modernism, and academics are pressured into its straitjacket. The resulting complications are reflected in structures as diverse as gender identity formation, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. As Heywood reveals in an analysis of Nike ads and in a startling discussion of female bodybuilding, under the guise of individualism and self-determination the anorexic aesthetic confronts us every day in contemporary consumer culture.

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