Ice-Skating in a Black Leather Suit Body Politics: Difference, Domination and Subversion in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Randal Kleiser’s Grease
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(s): Magdalena Vázquez AmerSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: body politics; food; clothing; dominant discourse; "the other"
Summary/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.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 9-16
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
