The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger

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This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations. Drawing on relevant material from Egypt, Ireland, India, Ukraine, and other regions of the globe, The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger is a rigorously comparative study made up of ten essays by well-established scholars from universities around the world. Since modernity, we have been inhabitants of a globe increasingly connected through discourses of equal access for all humans to the resources of the planet, but the volume emphasizes alongside this reality the flagrant politicization of those same resources. From this emphasis, the essays in the volume place into relief the idea that ideological and aesthetic discourses of hunger could inform ethical thinking and practices about who or what constitutes the figure of the modern historical human. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Hungry; or, Human? (Manisha Basu)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Oskar Rosenfeld, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Chronotope of Hunger (Sven-Erik Rose)....Pages 27-56 The Question of Literary Form: Realism in the Poetry and Theater of the 1943 Bengal Famine (Sourit Bhattacharya)....Pages 57-88 “A Sound Without a Message”: Childhood, Embodied Memory, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (Anastasia Ulanowicz)....Pages 89-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars (Christina Van Houten)....Pages 115-134 A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People (Sherene Seikaly)....Pages 135-155 Gourmand or Glutton? Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want (Rachael Newberry)....Pages 157-174 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 The Missing Dead of the Great Hunger: Metaphor and Palimpsest in Irish Film (Dana Och)....Pages 177-204 (Trans-)National Hunger: Cold War Famine Iconographies in the United States (Katharina M. Fackler)....Pages 205-227 Consuming the Wiindigoo: Native Figurations of Hunger and Food Bureaucracy (Joshua D. Miner)....Pages 229-257 Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos’ “The Excursionists” (Malini Johar Schueller)....Pages 259-275 Afterword: Hunger as Performance (Pallavi Banerjee, Ranita Ray)....Pages 277-285 Back Matter ....Pages 287-291