The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

by Andrew Norris and Michel Delville

Book Overview

This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the body's heterogeneity and plasticity can reveal. From literary motif or psychosomatic symptom to revolutionary gesture or existential malady, the double crux of hunger and disgust is a powerful force which can define the experience of embodiment. Kafka's fable of the "Hunger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367890267
• ISBN13: 9780367890261
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.9"