TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sidia Fiorato
PY  - 2025
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1664-2104
SN  - 9783034361330
TI  - Alice's Wonderland: Performances of Identity
DO  - 10.3726/b23162
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1593051
N2  - The volume presents a journey into Alice's Wonderland as a world of morphing possibilities. In a constant dialogue with Victorian codifications, Alice learns to define her identity and at the same time presents critical insights into her own cultural milieu. Alice appears to be on the threshold upon different systems of reference which she actively investigates through a specific involvement with Victorian institutions such as the family, the law and education. The analysis focusses in particular on her quest for her own identity, developed throughout Carroll's text as well as in later adaptations, and from the perspective of food studies. It combines Alice's narrative and theatrical/balletic body in a new experience of Wonderland as a cultural palimpsest that brings to expression contemporary reverberations of Victorian solicitations. The volume highlights the power of Carroll's text which already prefigures its ever renewing cultural impact as a template for storytelling.
KW  - identity, narrative, food, body
LA  - English
ER  -