"Patrick Anderson has written a wonderful book, one that will have a real impact on the field of performance studies. The topic that he has chosen is important and timely: the forced feeding of prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo, the anorexia epidemic among young women (and now men), and the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube are only some of the most recent and urgent questions that have surfaced around the practice and politics of starvation and who, ultimately, has the power over the individual body."--Diana Taylor, author of "The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas"

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

Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor of Communication and a faculty affiliate of Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is a co-editor of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict.