The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger

Chapter 1 Hungry; or, Human?

Chapter 2 Oskar Rosenfeld, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Chronotope of Hunger

Chapter 3 The Question of Literary Form: Realism in the Poetry and Theater of the 1943 Bengal Famine

Chapter 4 “A Sound Without a Message”: Childhood, Embodied Memory, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

Chapter 5 Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars

Chapter 7 Gourmand or Glutton? Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want

Chapter 8 The Missing Dead of the Great Hunger: Metaphor and Palimpsest in Irish Film

Chapter 9 (Trans-)National Hunger: Cold War Famine Iconographies in the United States

Chapter 10 Consuming the Wiindigoo: Native Figurations of Hunger and Food Bureaucracy

Chapter 11 Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos’ “The Excursionists”

Chapter 12 Afterword: Hunger as Performance