• Shreya Pathania

This research paper attempts to examine the intricate relationship between body and identity through the lens of embodiment and corporeality. Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel offers a harrowing portrayal of Lia, a teenage girl grappling with an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, whose fragmented sense of self is reflected through her deteriorating body. By utilising the theoretical frameworks of embodiment and corporeality, this study explores how Lia’s physical suffering becomes a language through which her emotional trauma and desire for control are expressed. The analysis highlights how Anderson transforms the starved body into a metaphorical and material space where identity, guilt, and resistance inscribe themselves.

Body image, Embodiment, inscription, Eating disorder, anorexia nervosa

"Reading the Starved Body: A Study of Corporeality in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 10, page no.c237-c239, October-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2510233.pdf

"Reading the Starved Body: A Study of Corporeality in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 10, page no. ppc237-c239, October-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2510233.pdf