Hunger and Postcolonial Writing

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Muzna Rahman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2022
• EAN: 9781138697966
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69796-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Critical Food Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Food security & supply, Human Geography, Development Studies, Food security and supply, Development and environmental geography, Traumatic National Hungers and the Starving Irish Body