Böcker av Katie Jones

Hip to Be Square is a captivating novel penned by the talented Katie Jones. Published recently in 2022 by Hardie Grant Books (UK), this book has quickly gained attention in the literary world. The genre of the book is a secret that readers unravel as they delve into its pages, making it an exciting read for all. Jones has masterfully crafted a narrative that is as engaging as it is thought-provoking. Hip to Be Square is not just a title; it is an invitation to a journey that promises to be as intriguing as it is thrilling. So, buckle up and get ready for an unforgettable literary experience with Katie Jones's Hip to Be Square, a novel that is as unique as its title. Remember, it's hip to be square!

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Weston's life is turned upside down when her father inherits a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons and her family leave their life in Brooklyn behind to renovate it. As a child, Sophie regularly visited her great-aunt Poppy and the house's other eccentric inhabitants, but why can she no longer recall her time there clear...

Disgust is a strong, immediate visceral reaction. While it may feel like a purely instinctive response, the cultural meanings ascribed to particular objects, bodies or behaviours play a significant role in determining whether or not they are experienced as disgusting. This interplay between bodies and ideas makes disgust a powerful source of metaphor in narrative fiction. For women's writing, disgust is particularly problematic due to a misogynistic tradition in which the female body has often been coded as disgusting. This book offers a comparative study of recently published texts by eight female authors writing in French and German - Marie Darrieussecq, Amelie Nothomb, Lorette Nobecourt, Alina Reyes, Sibylle Berg, Jenny Erpenbeck, Monika Maron and Charlotte Roche - in terms of an aesthetics of disgust and asks to what extent disgust can be seen as a useful tool for feminist criticism. Since the late 1990s there have been increasing levels of academic interest in disgust in various disciplines, ranging from clinical psychology to aesthetics and moral philosophy. As one of the first full-length studies to consider literary uses of disgust, this book both contributes to the emerging field of disgust theory and offers a new contribution to the study of women's writing.