The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger
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 r
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ANASTASIA ULANOWICZ AND MANISHA BASU
The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger
The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger
Anastasia Ulanowicz · Manisha Basu Editors
The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger
Editors Anastasia Ulanowicz Department of English University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA
Manisha Basu Department of English University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign Champaign, IL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-47484-7 ISBN 978-3-319-47485-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47485-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017943665 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Akihito Yokoyama/Alamy Stock Photo Cover design by Jenny Vong Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1
Hungry; or, Human? 1 Manisha Basu
Part I Memory and Trauma 2
Oskar Rosenfeld, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Chronotope of Hunger 27 Sven-Erik Rose
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The Question of Literary Form: Realism in the Poetry and Theater of the 1943 Bengal Famine 57 Sourit Bhattacharya
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“A Sound Without a Message”: Childhood, Embodied Memory, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets 89 Anastasia Ulanowicz
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Part 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 115 Christina Van Houten
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A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People 135 Sherene Seikaly
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Gourmand or Glutton? Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want 157 Rachael Newberry
Part III Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts 8
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