Hunger and Postcolonial Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138697966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Munza Rahman

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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