Abstract By reading selected texts by Anne Tyler with a focus on their representations of fat female characters, this article demonstrates that fatness has become a lazy literary shorthand for myriad, always negative, assumptions about women. I argue that such examples can be found in the work of this award-winning female author. When such an author uses fatness to denigrate female characters, and that goes by without comment from scholars, we do a disservice to the millions of women who are reading these texts and receiving the message that a woman’s primary responsibility continues to be to tame her “unruly” body. Fat is disruptive and a visual signal of the female body that refuses to conform to patriarchal discipline. We need to ask why this is a cause for derision rather than celebration in the work of this female author.

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肥胖恐惧症的偶然残忍：安妮·泰勒（Anne Tyler）选定文本中“不守规矩”女性身体的交叉分析

摘要 通过阅读安妮·泰勒 (Anne Tyler) 的精选文本，重点关注她们对肥胖女性角色的表现，本文表明肥胖已成为一种懒惰的文学速记，代表了对女性的无数、总是消极的假设。我认为可以在这位屡获殊荣的女作家的作品中找到这样的例子。当这样的作者使用肥胖来诋毁女性角色时，而且没有学者发表评论，我们伤害了数百万正在阅读这些文本并收到这样一个信息的女性，即女性的主要责任仍然是驯服她“不羁”的身体。脂肪具有破坏性，是女性身体拒绝遵守父权纪律的视觉信号。我们需要问一下，为什么在这位女性作家的作品中，这会引起嘲笑而不是庆祝。