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Mexican fiction --- Obesity in literature. --- Roman mexicain --- Surpoids --- History and criticism. --- Histoire. --- Dans la littérature.
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The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat,
English literature --- Obesity in women. --- Obesity in literature. --- Women --- Overweight women --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Diseases
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Obesity --- Human body --- Obesity in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Adiposity --- Corpulence --- Fatness --- Overweight --- Body weight --- Metabolism --- Nutrition disorders --- Disorders
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