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Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger, Fiona Wright

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Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the authors affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the authors own actions and motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wrights life, at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine research, travel writing, memoir, and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise Glück deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, and detailed and humorous views of hunger-induced situations of the kind that are so compelling in Wrights poetry
Language
eng
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193 pages
Note
Scheduled to be published September 2015
Isbn
9781922146939
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Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger
Title
Small acts of disappearance
Title remainder
essays on hunger
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Fiona Wright
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Small acts of disappearance
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Language
eng
Summary
Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the authors affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its contradictions and deceptions, and by an awareness of the empowering effects of hunger, which is unsparing in its consideration of the authors own actions and motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wrights life, at university, where she finds herself in a radically different social world to the one she grew up in, in Sri Lanka as a fledgling journalist, in Germany as a young writer, in her hospital treatments back in Sydney. They combine research, travel writing, memoir, and literary discussions of how writers like Christina Stead, Carmel Bird, Tim Winton, John Berryman and Louise Glück deal with anorexia and addiction; together with accounts of family life, and detailed and humorous views of hunger-induced situations of the kind that are so compelling in Wrights poetry
Awards note
Queensland Literary Awards Winner 2016.
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contains biographical information
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ANL
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1983-
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Wright, Fiona
Dewey number
362.25092
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC552.A5
LC item number
W75 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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University of Western Sydney
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  • Wright, Fiona
  • Wright, Fiona
  • Eating disorders
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Eating disorders
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Anorexia nervosa patients' writings, Australian
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Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger, Fiona Wright
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Note
Scheduled to be published September 2015
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191)
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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000055038918
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
193 pages
Isbn
9781922146939
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)913830082
Label
Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger, Fiona Wright
Publication
Copyright
Note
Scheduled to be published September 2015
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000055038918
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
193 pages
Isbn
9781922146939
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)913830082

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