Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture
In this passionate merging of personal history and scholarship, Leslie Heywood reveals the "anorexic logic" central to Western high culture. This logic privileges mind over body, masculine over feminine, individual over collective, control over emotion, and a realm of transcendence over th...
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Zusammenfassung: | In this passionate merging of personal history and scholarship, Leslie Heywood reveals the "anorexic logic" central to Western high culture. This logic privileges mind over body, masculine over feminine, individual over collective, control over emotion, and a realm of transcendence over the haphazardness of daily life. As clinical studies of anorexia show, this is the very logic adopted by millions of young American women today, to devastating effect In literature this anorexic logic is embodied in high modernism, as Heywood shows in discussions of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood reveals an author struggling to develop a clean, spare, "anorexic" style in the midst of a shatteringly messy emotional life. As Heywood points out, students are trained in the aesthetic of high modernism, and academics are pressured into its straitjacket. The resulting complications are reflected in structures as diverse as gender identity formation, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. As Heywood reveals in an analysis of Nike ads and in a startling discussion of female bodybuilding, under the guise of individualism and self-determination the anorexic aesthetic confronts us every day in contemporary consumer culture |
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TO HUNGER
The Anorexic Aesthetic
in Modern Culture
LESLIE HEYWOOD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Clarice Got Her Gun: Tracking the Anorexic Horizon 1
I Personal Bodies Struggles Contexts Legends 2
II Historical Contexts Limits Positions Anorexic Philosophy:
Descartes, Plato, Hegel, Freud 16
III Consumer Culture Nike The Relentless Logic of the Gym 30
IV Philosophical Anorexics: The Flip Side 40
2 From Female Disease to Textual Ideal, or What s
Modernism Got to Do with It 60
I Inside Every Fat Body There s a Thin Body Struggling to Get
Out: More Historical Contexts 66
II The Metaphysics of the Flame: Fasting Girls, Kafka s Letters
to Felice, and A Hunger Artist 71
III The Female Is a Chaos: Male Anorexia in Eliot and Pound 84
IV He Who Embraces the Flesh: Anorexia and Gender
in Williams 102
3 Should Be Out of It: Starving the Feminine
in Joseph Conrad 111
I Text over Flesh: Heart of Darkness and the Fat Man 120
II Fat Is Primitive: Anorexia as Historical Progress in Falk 136
Contents
Missing Persons: The Black Hole of the Feminine
in Jean Rhys 144
I Rhys s Life: Booze and Black Holes 149
II The Problem with No Name (Reprise): The Constitution
of Female Subjectivity in the Black Hole 164
III Jean Rhys, Sexual Harassment, and the Academy:
Manifestations of the First Death, or Clipping Your
Students Wings 173
IV Beyond Negation (?): Wide Sargasso Sea 186
Notes 203
Index 239
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