Body and Stigma: Representing Ugliness and Disability in "Les Petites Reines" [Piglettes] by Clémentine Beauvais

Magdalena Grycan

Abstract


The present paper focuses on the representation of the body in Clémentine Beauvais’s YA novel Les Petites Reines, by analysing it in the light of its stigmatisation. The concept of social identity and its embodiment (Richard Jenkins), as well as Erving Goffman’s social theory of stigma, are referred to demonstrate the composition of body stigmatisation, as well as the construction of the images of the adolescent body and its presumed ugliness, and the image of the disabled body, in the novel.

Keywords


body; stigma; adolescence; body image; handicap; YA novel

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2025.49.2.63-73
Date of publication: 2025-07-02 14:37:26
Date of submission: 2025-03-07 18:57:21


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