You are what you eat : oral aggression and agency in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in wonderland and Catherynne Valente’s the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making

• Main Author: Anthony, Tanya
• Other Authors: Shirley Chew
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62752
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Fantasy and myth protagonists have a complicated, often detrimental relationship with the food in their respective worlds, the female characters more so than the males. This paper to examine two texts that destabilise this damaging–Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Catherynne M. V...