Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger

Resource Information

The work Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Small acts of disappearance : essays on hunger

Title remainder

essays on hunger

Statement of responsibility

Fiona Wright

Title variation

Small acts of disappearance

Creator

• Wright, Fiona, 1983-

Contributor

• University of Western Sydney, Writing and Society Research Centre

Author

• Wright, Fiona, 1983-

Subject

• Anorexia nervosa patients' writings, Australian
• Australian
• Eating disorders
• Eating disorders -- Psychological aspects
• Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Australia -- Anecdotes
• Wright, Fiona, 1983-
• Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Australia -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Anecdotes

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.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

362.25092

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC552.A5

LC item number

W75 2015

Literary form

non fiction