Open AccessSort. En reparerende læsning af den vrede og tykke (kvinde)krop
Author(s) -
Camilla Bruun Eriksen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v26i4.110555
Subject(s) - queer , performative utterance , conceptualization , politics , reading (process) , aesthetics , sort , sociology , virtue , character (mathematics) , object (grammar) , psychoanalysis , gender studies , psychology , art , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , law , political science , geometry , mathematics , computer science , information retrieval
Sort. A reparative reading of the angry and fat (female) bodyInstead of a purely aesthetic state or medical condition fat scholar Kathleen LeBesco (2004: 1) suggests considering fatness as performative and a political situation. Based on the novel Sort (2012) by Kamilla Hega Holst this article examines and discusses LeBesco’s thesis; that the fat body by virtue of its culturally created position as ‘deviant’ and ‘abnormal’ holds a special ability to evoke ‘terror’ and disturb social order. Through both reparative and paranoid readings, and by applying Sara Ahmed’s figure The Feminist Killjoy as well as Lee Edelman’s conceptualization of queer futurism, the possibility of reading the novel’s fat protagonist as a queer character who actively and consciously resists social demands for a happy future is considered. Furthermore, ‘the body as battleground’, agency, as well as the fat body’s potential to oppose normalizing practices of embodiment is discussed.