Abstract
This study examines the subtle and complex importance of food and eating in contemporary female fiction. It reveals how the chief concern with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writer like Margaret Atwood. Two novels in particular, Cat’s Eye (1988) and Alias Grace (1996) will be considered as they feature female protagonists who experience intense conflicts concerning their bodies, conflicts that result in or are a response to violence. This violence takes the form of eating disorders. They highlight this form of bodily violence which supports their on going critique of dualistic thinking. In their fictions, Atwood shows the artificial bifurcation of human existence into body and self which tends to result in self-alienation or the splitting of the subject. This writer draws on feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including eating disorders as a form of self-violence or mutilation, to demonstrate the direct relationship of food and eating or not-eating with gender and cultural politics to manifest the role of using food in assumed association of the womanly body which leads to splitting of the subject.
Highlights
It is quite long time that the body depicts human’s affections, sensations and speculations
This writer draws on feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including eating disorders as a form of self-violence or mutilation, to demonstrate the direct relationship of food and eating or not-eating with gender and cultural politics to manifest the role of using food in assumed association of the womanly body which leads to splitting of the subject
The performance to public tension is manifested by her female characters through their reaction towards food and, through the eating disorders from which they undergo
Summary
It is quite long time that the body depicts human’s affections, sensations and speculations. It was in the middle Ages that Christians considered non-eating as a way for holy cleanness, which was assigned by the aristocracy and priests She continues to discuss that customs of fasting were used to improve a perfect inside self and it makes closer to God. in the Baroque era, all the positive characteristics of man like beauty and good-looking or social position were connected with fatness. This writer will discuss the selected author, Margaret Atwood because of her evident concern with contemporary history, society and politics, especially role and experience of women This interest shows itself very differently in this writer, both officially and in terms of philosophical or political emphasis and how these are coded through food, appetite, eating and female bodies. The main focus of attention is on Atwood, whose writing of food and eating is closely linked to exploration of what means to be a woman in the latter part of the twentieth century
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