Body writing : the somatization of truth on the human corporeal form

• Main Author: Tan, Poh Hoon
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60315
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Claudine Raynaud, in “Beloved or the Shifting Shapes of Memory”, asserts that the bodily trauma in Beloved “becomes a metaphor for another kind of writing, body writing ” (qtd in Tally 51). My dissertation seeks to examine the act of body writing through scarred, mutilated, and diseased bodies resu...