1st Edition
The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or existential malady, the double crux of hunger and disgust is a powerful force which can define the... Read more
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter One: Activists of the Belly: Starving Clerks and Schizo-Strollers
Chapter Two: The Spectacle of Starvation
Chapter Three: The Materiology of Disgust
Chapter Four: The Violence of Self-Starvation
Chapter Five: The Anti-Capitalist Reading of Anorexia: Self-Starvation as Resistance
Chapter Six: Hunger and Consumer Capitalism
Epilogue: Empathizing with the Disembodied
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Michel Delville is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Liège, Belgium.
Andrew Norris is Senior Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
