Writing (Fat) Bodies
Grotesque Realism and the Carnivalesque in Percival Everett’s Zulus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Mitchell (corresponding author), Keith B Mitchell |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 269-285 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2013.017 |
| OpenAlex | W2043734333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Percival Everett’s novel Zulus (1989) is a dark and deeply engrossing post-apocalyptic meditation on the ravages of war and its tyrannical effect on human communication, connections, and understanding. It is also a satire and a foray, both comic and deadly serious, into the grotesque realism of the tradition of Rabelais and Swift. The article examines aspects of grotesque realism and the carnivalesque through a Bakhtinian lens and explores Zulus in light of current theory concerning fat, embodiment, and what Mark Graham coins as lipoliteracy; that is, the way we “read” fat as conveying intelligible messages about bodies and food. Thus, the article embraces, yet moves beyond, standard readings of the grotesque body by exploring the materiality of the fat body as it is affected and as it affects societal standards of the corporeal
Aesthetics · Art · Carnivalesque · Comics · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Realism · Trilogy · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |