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Rituals of Hunger. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls

Zuzanna Szatanik

Abstract

The following article discusses rituals of control and purification characteristic of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, as shown in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Wintergirls. One of the main assumptions of the paper is that eating disorders should be analyzed in the context of contemporary Western culture and the conventional models of femininity. As the Beauty Myth becomes the modern religion, rituals of hunger are interpreted as a present‑day version of religious rites.

Key words: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, the Beauty Myth, rituals of control and purification

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Szatanik, Z. Rituals of Hunger. Laurie Halse Anderson’s <i>Wintergirls</i>. Romanica Silesiana, 9(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/5926

Vol. 9 (2014)
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ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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