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Jane Frugtneit Jane Frugtneit i(A97101 works by) (a.k.a. Jane Marie Frugtneit)
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1 Patrick White’s The Vivisector : Memoirs of Many in One – Who is Hurtle Duffield? Jane Frugtneit , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 1 no. 1 2009; 'On many occasions Patrick White professed a love of cooking. As acclaimed author he gained universal fame, and remains the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Both cooking and writing are creative processes and this essay draws parallels between the creative process, the digestive process, defecation and excrement. Of course, defecation is a natural bodily function resulting from food consumption and without food the body wouldn't survive. Syllogistically, without the corporeal there is no mind and without either body or mind there is no identity. In their introduction to Culture and Waste Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke contend that "expelling and discarding is more than biological necessity - it is fundamental to the ordering of the self" (Muecke 2003, xiii). Therefore, taken in the context of the biological and ontological duality of expulsion, I contend that food, in its many guises, is inextricably linked to identity. (Author's abstract)
1 Flying High Jane Frugtneit , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , December vol. 35 no. 2008; (p. 134-136)
— Review of Brolga Pat Skinner , 2006 single work novel
1 Untitled Jane Frugtneit , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 10 2007;
— Review of The Circuit Beck Cole , Kelly Lefever , Mitch Torres , Dot West , 2007 single work film/TV
1 Despite the Times, Alert Jane Frugtneit , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , November-December no. 34 2007; (p. 116-118)
— Review of Awake Despite the Hour Paul Mitchell , 2007 selected work poetry
1 For Love Alone? Anorexia and Teresa's Quest for Love Jane Frugtneit , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 152-162)

Frugtneit asserts that 'the character of Teresa Hawkins [in For Love Alone] displays many of the physiological and psychological symptoms of anorexia. She starves herself in her quest for love, a form of self-abnegation by which she gradually denies sustenance to both her body and mind.'

Frugtneit concludes: 'In the autobiographical For Love Alone Teresa Hawkin's self-starvation in her quest for love reveals how food, desire and identity are inextricably linked ... Ultimately [Theresa] is empowered and she demonstrates her empowerment by reconciling the psychological conflicts that affected her physically through writing the self. Her debilitated body strengthens as she recognises the profound way in which she has achieved independence and sexual liberation. In For Love Alone Teresa's anorexia is a testament to the paradoxes and dilemmas that confront women and their quest for identity.'
1 Untitled Jane Frugtneit , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , March vol. 1 no. 1 2006;
— Review of Pomegranates : Poems Erica Jolly , 2003 selected work poetry
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