The aesthetics and politics of global hunger / Anastasia Ulanowicz, Manisha Basu, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Basu, Manisha, editor.

Ulanowicz, Anastasia Maria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunger.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan , [2017]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Hungry; or, Human? / Manisha Basu

pt. I Memory and Trauma

2. Oskar Rosenfeld, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Chronotope of Hunger / Sven-Erik Rose

3. The Question of Literary Form: Realism in the Poetry and Theater of the 1943 Bengal Famine / Sourit Bhattacharya

4. "A Sound Without a Message": Childhood, Embodied Memory, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets / Anastasia Ulanowicz

pt. II The Body and the Body Politic

5. Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars / Christina Van Houten

6. A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People / Sherene Seikaly

7. Gourmand or Glutton? Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want / Rachael Newberry

pt. III Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

8. The Missing Dead of the Great Hunger: Metaphor and Palimpsest in Irish Film / Dana Och

9. (Trans-)National Hunger: Cold War Famine Iconographies in the United States / Katharina M. Fackler

10. Consuming the Wiindigoo: Native Figurations of Hunger and Food Bureaucracy / Joshua D. Miner

11. Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos' "The Excursionists" / Malini Johar Schueller

12. Afterword: Hunger as Performance / Ranita Ray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319474847

3319474847

OCLC:

958460757