So Much Wasted - Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Anderson Klappentext A performance project on self-starvation in the clinic, the arts, and prison, which considers starvation as a gendered practice. Zusammenfassung An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic! the gallery! and the prison. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Hunger in the Event of Subjectivity 1 1. The Archive of Anorexia 30 2. Enduring Performance 57 3. How to Stage Self-Consumption 85 4. To Lie Down to Death for Days 110 Afterword: The Ends of Hunger 138 Notes 153 References 173 Index 185

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Anderson, Patrick Anderson
• Assisted by: Judith Halberstam (Editor), Lisa Lowe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2010
• EAN: 9780822348191
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4819-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)