Shuffling toward oblivion
The long walk of the fat body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19003589 |
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| Authors | Tony Kemerly (High Point University, corresponding author), Jenn Brandt (High Point University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 294-303 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fat Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2160-486X • E-ISSN: 2160-4851 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21604851.2017.1298947 |
| OpenAlex | W2600486770 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The authors use poststructuralist analysis to examine the portrayal of the fat body as “flawed” through the lens of Stephen King’s The Long Walk, a novel about the contestants of an annual walking competition held in a dystopian, totalitarian version of the United States. The story can be read as an allegory of the way society treats bodies coded as “fat,” where the pejorative myth of the fat body is used to force “help” on these individuals as a result of their physicality being perceived as a moral weakness
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Dystopia · Literature · Mythology · Pejorative · Political science · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Obesity and Health Practices · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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