I en iterativ process i ett utforskande arbete underso?ker jag om tintamaresken kan anva?ndas i fler sammanhang a?n inom den folkliga komiken. Genom litteraturstudium hittar jag en va?g fra?n den svenska bondkomiken till fja?rmningseffekter i internationella teatertraditioner. Med hja?lp av laborationer och kontrollexperiment pro?var jag fo?rha?llningssa?ttet och gestaltningar tillsammans med tintamaresken.

The purpose of this paper is to make a feminist textual analysis of three female protagonists incontemporary novels in order to demonstrate representations of ?skeva? female bodies, deviantfrom beauty-, slender and age norms. The analysis is based on an intersectional perspective whichdemonstrates the interaction between body, sex, gender, class, sexuality and age. The theoreticalmaterial used are class theories by Bourdieu and Skeggs, performative theories by Butler, theoriesof grotesque realism by Bachtin and the female grotesque by Russo and Lundberg. The charactersall belong to the genre of the female grotesque which manifests a feminist protest and a free zonewithin patriarchal power structures.