By Michel Delville,Andrew Norris
This research examines how starvation narratives and performances give a contribution to a reconsideration of ignored or prohibited domain names of considering which just a complete war of words with the body’s heterogeneity and plasticity can exhibit. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to innovative gesture or existential illness, the double crux of starvation and disgust is a robust strength that can outline the adventure of embodiment. Kafka’s myth of the "Hunger Artist" bargains a matrix for the short, whereas its wonderful last-page revelation introduces disgust as a correlative of abstinence, wakeful or differently. Grounded in Kristeva’s idea of abjection, the determine of the fraught physique lurking on the center of the unfavourable gruesome gathers precision all through this learn, the place it truly is hired in a widening sequence of contexts: suicide via overeating, hunger as self-performance or political resistance, the teratological as opposed to the totalitarian, the anorexic harboring of loss of life. within the strategy, writers and artists as varied as Herman Melville, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christina Rossetti, George Orwell, Knut Hamsun, J.M. Coetzee, Cindy Sherman, Pieter Breughel, Marina Abramovic, David Nebreda, Paul McCarthy, and others are introduced into the dialogue. by means of taking a look at the several acts of visceral, affective, and ideological resistance played by means of the ravenous physique, this ebook intensifies the connection among starvation and disgust experiences whereas supplying perception into the modalities of the "dark ugly" which tell the aesthetics and politics of starvation. it will likely be of worth to someone drawn to the tradition, politics, and subjectivity of embodiment, and students operating in the fields of disgust experiences, nutrients stories, literary experiences, cultural thought, and media studies.
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