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Megan Milks explores and explodes the lines between criticism, creative writing, theory, and autobiography to suggest that bulimic writing, in its embrace of pathology and disorder, inverts a tradition of neurotypical, ableist (not to mention patriarchal) literary criticism. Considering what Dodie Bellamy calls “The Barf” and Kate Zambreno calls bulimic writing, Milks theorizes and performs uncontainable logorrheic spewing as a potential mode of queer and feminist resistance. The traditional abstract included here is merely a content teaser and, we hope, reads ironically against the innovative critical work that follows. If you wish to read more about the process by which this author undertook writing this essay, as well as the critical stakes of its production, please see the introduction to the volume as well as the accompanying anti-abstract at the close of the chapter.
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Milks, M. (2017). Blah Blah Bleh: Bulimic Writing as Resistance. In: Silbergleid, R., Quynn, K. (eds) Reading and Writing Experimental Texts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58362-4_5
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