(In)digestion in Literature and Film

A Transcultural Approach

Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat, Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000071733
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Political Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

(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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Editors
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• On (In)digestibility and the Politics of Identity: An Introduction
• Section One Theoretical and Formal Contours
• Section Two Disordered Eating beyond the West
• Section Three Disordered Eating in the West
• Index