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(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.
Contents
Introduction
Section One: Theoretical and Formal Contours
Suckling Pig or Potatoes? Class Politics and Food Symbolism in
Eastern European Film
Elena Popan
Haptic for Gourmets: Cinema, Gastronomy, and Strategic Exoticism
in Eat Drink Man Woman and Tortilla Soup
Aida Roldán-García
Pro-Ana and Mia Blogs and Care of the Self
Jenny Platz
Section Two: Disordered Eating Beyond the West
White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and
War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema
Kenta McGrath
"Such a Thin Slice of Watermelon!" Fat and Thin in Macabéa's
Malnourished World
Benjamin Legg
Multiplicities of Identities and Meanings Behind Devouring Characters in
Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Katsuya Izumi
The Dangerous Vegan: Han Kang's The Vegetarian and the Anti-Feminist
Rhetoric of Disordered Eating
Laura Wright
Section Three: Disordered Eating in the West
Dietary Perversions and Subversion of Nature in Huysmans's
Against Nature
Romain Peter
Eating the Dead: Transgressive Hungers and the Grotesque
Body in Ulysses
Wilson Taylor
Hungry for Honey: Desire in Dacia Maraini's Il treno per Helsinki
Eilis Kierans
"Identica a loro?": (In)digesting Food and Identity in Igiaba
Scego's "Salsicce"
Francesca Calamita
From Bartholomew Fair to Bridesmaids: Ben Jonson's Fecopoetics
and Gendered American Pop Culture
Emily Gruber Keck
