The aesthetics and politics of global hunger. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anastasia Ulanowicz, Manisha Basu.
• Editors: Ulanowicz, Anastasia Maria; Basu, Manisha
• Contents: Section I. Memory and Trauma1. Writing Hunger in the Nazi Ghettos: The Search for Context and the Experience of Its Absence in Leyb Goldin's 'Chronicle of a Single Day' and Oskar Rosenfeld's 'Golem and Hunger'; Sven-Erik Rose2. Thinking the Bengal Famine: Catastrophe, Geography, and the Narrative Genres; Sourit Bhattacharya3. 'A Sound Without a Message': Embodied Memory, Childhood, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets; Anastasia UlanowiczSection II. The Body and the Body Politic4. A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People; Sherene Seikaly5. Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars; Christina Van Houten6. Gourmand or Glutton?: Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want; Rachael NewberrySection III. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts7. Refusing to Represent the Great Hunger: Metaphor and the Palimpsest in Irish Film; Dana Och8. (Trans-) National Iconographies of Hunger in Cold War America; Katharina Fackler9. Feeding the Wiindigoo: Bureaucracy and Hunger in Native Literatures; Joshua Miner10. Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos' 'The Excursionists'; Malini Johar Schueller.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.8; Hunger; Food supply
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319474854
• Related ISBNs: 9783319474847
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