Rocío Riestra-Camacho

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI

Background Narratives (including memoirs and novels) about eating disorders (EDs) are typically published with the intention to benefit readers, but survey evidence suggests that reading such narratives with an active ED may more often be harmful than helpful. To reduce the probability of inadvertent harm and learn more about how narrative reading...

No research has yet experimentally evaluated the role of narrative fiction in relation to eating disorders (EDs). This study used a between-participants design to assess vulnerability to EDs before and after reading two contemporary U.S. young adult sports novels. ED vulnerability was measured using the EAT-26 and a tailored questionnaire. The expe...

The importance of authorial intention has been debated extensively in literary studies. In cognitive literary studies, however, the effects books provoke in readers are of greater relevance. With an unreliable intradiegetic narrator, ambivalent about her denial of hunger, Wintergirls (2009), a US YA anorexia novel, embodies the spiraling network of...

In this article, I employ illness narrative theory to analyze Emma Woolf’s recovery from anorexia through autobiographical writing. This is a novel approach, insomuch as anorexia memoirs focusing on recovery are a rare phe- 10 nomenon, as are their analyses. This essay narrows this gap by exploring Woolf’s articulation of anorexia recovery through...

Joanne Kathleen Rowling saltó a la fama como autora de la saga Harry Potter en 1997, siendo actualmente una de las escritoras inglesas de literatura infantil y juvenil popular más conocidas a nivel mundial. Además de la notoriedad que se granjeó como novelista, recientemente Rowling se ha estrenado como guionista, tras la publicación de las dos pri...

Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper ackn...

The aim of this article is to examine Orientalism as a literary characterization mechanism in the contemporary American young adult sports novel Coming Up for Air (2017), written by Miranda Kenneally. The story explores the transition year of Maggie King to a swimming sports university in the United States. The analysis in this article, however, wi...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the role of disciplinary power regimes of femininity in sporting institutions depicted in sports fiction. With a renewed interest in analyzing sports practices as specifically gendered, this paper addresses how contemporary narratives’ deeper address of the affective encounters of characters has reconfigured...