“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman

IF 0.1 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.7560/tsll63303
Cailin Flannery Roles
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ABSTRACT:Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman traces the increasing self-alienation and inability to eat of the protagonist, Marian. Her identity as a young, single working woman is contextualized in 1960s Toronto, a culture marked by competitive individualism where consumption itself is a way of life, per Christopher Lasch. I argue Marian regains agency by reading through and empathizing with the material realities of commodities, ultimately recognizing her own position as a commodity unwilling to be consumed.
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“你工作的表面”:《可食用的女人》中的自我异化和自恋文化
摘要:玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《可吃的女人》描写了主人公玛丽安日益自我异化和无法进食的故事。她作为一个年轻的单身职业女性的身份背景是20世纪60年代的多伦多,一个以竞争个人主义为标志的文化,消费本身就是一种生活方式,克里斯托弗·拉希(Christopher Lasch)说。我认为玛丽安通过阅读和同情商品的物质现实,最终认识到她自己作为一种不愿被消费的商品的地位,从而重新获得了代理。
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