Treating hunger and disgust as political as well as aesthetic categories of experience, this book covers a wide range of genres including literature, cinema and performance art. It will be of value to anyone interested in the culture, politics, and subjectivity of embodiment, and scholars working within the fields of disgust studies, food studies, literary studies, cultural theory, and media studies.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter One: Activists of the Belly: Starving Clerks and Schizo-Strollers

Chapter Two: The Spectacle of Starvation

Chapter Three: The Materiology of Disgust

Chapter Four: The Violence of Self-Starvation

Chapter Five: The Anti-Capitalist Reading of Anorexia: Self-Starvation as Resistance

Chapter Six: Hunger and Consumer Capitalism

Epilogue: Empathizing with the Disembodied

Works Cited

Index

Michel Delville is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Andrew Norris is Senior Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.