Michel Delville, Andrew Norris

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust

Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Treating hunger and disgust as political as well as aesthetic categories of experience, this book covers a wide range of genres including literature, cinema and performance art. It will be of value to anyone interested in the culture, politics, and subjectivity of embodiment, and scholars working within the fields of disgust studies, food studie

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367890261
• ISBN-10: 0367890267
• Artikelnr.: 58482272

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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