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.
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