Hrana, jedenje i narativizacija identiteta u romanu Lady Oracle Margaret Atwood

The present paper seeks to explore the significance of eating in the process of identity formation in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle and its effects upon Joan, the female protagonist of the novel. Based on the findings of Susie Orbach (1946), Joan appears to have developed an ambivalent relationship with food from a very early age. Once she decides to lose weight and turn into what the society has always demanded her to look like, she develops an identity crisis which is reflected in her literary production. There are several barriers in the process of Joan’s identity formation that reveal themselves later in her narratives as an author. The focus of this study is to shed light on this problematic process of being a female author coping with nutritional insecurities.Rad nastoji istražiti važnost jedenja u procesu oblikovanja identiteta u romanu Lady Oracle [Proročica] Margaret Atwood i njegov utjecaj na glavnu junakinju Joan. S obzirom na otkrića Susie Orbach (1946.), Joan naizgled od djetinjstva gradi nezdrav odnos prema hrani. Nakon što odluči smršavjeti i postići izgled kakav joj je društvo oduvijek nametalo, zapada u krizu identiteta koja se očituje u njezinu književnom stvaralaštvu. U procesu Joanina oblikovanja identiteta postoji nekoliko prepreka koje se razotkrivaju tijekom njezina narativa, a uži je cilj rada razotkrivanje složenog i problematičnog procesa autorice koja se nosi s prehrambenim dvojbama