ABSTRACT
(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
section Section One|53 pages
Theoretical and Formal Contours
chapter 1|15 pages
Suckling Pig or Potatoes?
chapter 2|19 pages
Haptic for Gourmets
section Section Two|66 pages
Disordered Eating beyond the West
chapter 4|17 pages
White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat
chapter 7|14 pages
The Dangerous Vegan
section Section Three|82 pages
Disordered Eating in the West