(In)digestion in Literature and Film

<p>(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 <i>resistance</i> 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 <i>against</i> 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.</p>