Muzna Rahman

Hunger and Postcolonial Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Hunger and Postcolonial Writing explores contemporary postcolonial fiction and life-writing from various geo-political contexts.

Produktdetails

• Critical Food Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 239mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781138697966
• ISBN-10: 1138697966
• Artikelnr.: 60022961

Autorenporträt

Muzna Rahman is English lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: (Post)colonialism
Hunger
and the Body. 2.(Post)colonial Foodways
Transhistorical Hungers
and the Global Alimentary in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. 3.The Text
Starving Body
and JM Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K. 4.Anorexic Fictions and Starving Histories in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. 5.Traumatic National Hungers and the Starving Irish Body: Bobby Sands' 1981 Hunger Strike