Distorted bodies and suffering souls : women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994
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Distorted bodies and suffering souls : women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994
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The work Distorted bodies and suffering souls : women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Distorted bodies and suffering souls : women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994
- Title remainder
- women in Australian fiction, 1984-1994
- Statement of responsibility
- Chantal Kwast-Greff
- Subject
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- Anorexia nervosa in literature
- Anorexia nervosa in literature
- Australian fiction -- Women authors
- Australian fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Infanticide in literature
- Infanticide in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Self-mutilation -- In literature
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Chaos. Pain. Self-mutilation. Women starve themselves. They burn or slash their own flesh or their babies' throats, and slam their newborns against walls. Their bodies are the canvases on which the suffering of the soul carves itself with knife and razor. In Australian fiction written by women between 1984 and 1994, female characters inscribe their inner chaos on their bodies to exert whatever power they have over themselves. Their self-inflicted pain is both reaction and language, the bodily sign not only of their enfeeblement but also to a certain extent of their empowerment, of themselves a
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 823.9140992870994
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9608
- LC item number
- .K93 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cross / cultures
- Series volume
- 160
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