| Title: | Ice-Skating in a Black Leather Suit Body Politics: Difference, Domination and Subversion in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Randal Kleiser’s Grease |
| Author: | Magdalena Vázquez Amer |
| Publication: | Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 4 (2), p. 9 |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-768X |
| e-ISSN: | 2066-7698 |
| Publisher: | Transilvania University Press |
| Place: | Brașov |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | The common trait between Monica Ali’ s novel Brick Lane’ s main character, Nazneen, and motion picture Grease’s female protagonist, Sandy Olsson is that both of them refuse to be culturally constructed by the patriarchal dominant discourse. Following Kathy Davis’ distinction when defining the main approaches to body politics, in this essay there we will discuss ‘difference, domination and subversion’. These main issues will be analysed at three levels: food, clothing and dancing, thus covering the inside of the body, the outside, and the use the protagonists make of it through movement, respectively. |
| Key words: | body politics, food, clothing, dominant discourse, ‘the other’ |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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