The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger

Anastasia Ulanowicz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida.  She is author of Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images (2015) and associate editor of ImageTexT. Manisha Basu is Assistant Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism (2016). Her interests include South Asian literatures and cultures, Anglophone African literatures, postcolonial studies, and literary and critical theory.

Section I. Memory and Trauma.- 1. Writing Hunger in the Nazi Ghettos: The Search for Context and the Experience of Its Absence in Leyb Goldin's 'Chronicle of a Single Day' and Oskar Rosenfeld's 'Golem and Hunger'; Sven-Erik Rose.- 2. Thinking the Bengal Famine: Catastrophe, Geography, and the Narrative Genres; Sourit Bhattacharya.- 3. 'A Sound Without a Message': Embodied Memory, Childhood, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets; Anastasia Ulanowicz.- Section II. The Body and the Body Politic.- 4. A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People; Sherene Seikaly.- 5. Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars; Christina Van Houten.- 6. Gourmand or Glutton?: Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want; Rachael Newberry.- Section III. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts.- 7. Refusing to Represent the Great Hunger: Metaphor and the Palimpsest in Irish Film; Dana Och.- 8. (Trans-) National Iconographies of Hunger in Cold War America; Katharina Fackler.- 9. Feeding the Wiindigoo: Bureaucracy and Hunger in Native Literatures; Joshua Miner.- 10. Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos' "The Excursionists"; Malini Johar Schueller.