Small Acts of Disappearance

Small Acts of Disappearance

Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the authorâ€™s 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 authorâ€™s own actions and motivations. The essays offer perspectives on the eating disorder at different stages in Wrightâ€™s 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 GluÌˆck 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 Wrightâ€™s poetry.
Country USA
Manufacturer Giramondo Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01
Format Kindle eBook