Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Rosenblatt, Roger | Walker, Lou A. | , .
Date
2017-08-01
Keywords
Creative writing | feminism | memoir | obesity | sex | weight
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78339
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Deflated is a memoir about the year after I naturally lost over 150 pounds. A grim fairy tale for fat girls, Deflated is highly concerned with the female experience of inhabiting a body, and of belonging to a society that imposes so many ideals upon its form. How can a woman enlarge herself in a culture that prizes feminine smallness above all else? How can a woman make herself smaller while maintaining—or enlarging—her natural, pre-existing grandness? These are the questions Deflated seeks to answer. | 125 pages
Recommended Citation
Harlow, Meghan, "Deflated" (2017). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3833.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3833