Michel Delville, Andrew Norris

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

• Format: ePub

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 studies, literary studies, cultural theory, and media studies.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315472195
• Artikelnr.: 48114128

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