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100 1 Ellmann, Maud,|d1954-
245 14 The hunger artists :|bstarving, writing, and imprisonment
/|cMaud Ellmann.
260 Cambridge, Mass. :|bHarvard University Press,|c1993.
300 136 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 |tAcknowledgments --|tAutophagy|g(starting p. 1) --
|tGynophagy|g(starting p. 29) --|tSarcophagy|g(starting p.
59) --|tEncryptment|g(starting p. 91) --|tNotes|g(starting
p. 115) --|tIndex|g(starting p. 133)
520 1 "The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by
political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle
of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical
than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology,
Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis,
expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act
of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation
the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of food
become the rejection of intolerable social constraints -
or of actual imprisonment? What is achieved at the
extremity of such a protest - at the moment of death?"
"Ellmann brilliantly unravels the answers; they lie, she
shows, in the inverse relationship between bodily hunger
and verbal expression. Drawing her examples from Yeats and
Kafka, Marx and Freud, Wole Soyinka and the suffragettes,
Mahatma Ghandi and Jane Fonda, she explores the entangled
meanings of writing and hunger in our culture of starvers.
Central to her discussion is an arresting comparison
between the Irish Hunger Strike of 1981 and the plot of
Richardson's Clarissa, in which the heroine starves
herself to death in penance for - or, perhaps, revenge
against - her rape. Both cases show a strange excess of
words in contrast to the savage reduction of the flesh, as
if the bodies of the starvers were devoured by their own
verbosity. The Hunger Artists examines this vampirical
feeding of words on flesh, revealing uncanny affinities
between the labor of starvation and the birth of letters,
diaries, poems, books. In her lean and vibrant prose,
Ellmann reaches beyond the fashionable preoccupation with
the body to the terrifying logic of disembodiment."--
Jacket.
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648 4 Geschichte 1981.
648 7 1981|2fast
650 0 Anorexia nervosa|xSocial aspects.
650 0 Anorexia nervosa|xPolitical aspects.
650 0 Anorexia nervosa in literature.
650 0 Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981.
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650 7 contestation politique|xlittérature|xpersonne célèbre
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650 7 anorexie mentale|xartiste|xcontestation politique|xgrève
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650 17 Hongerstakingen.|2gtt
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776 08 |iOnline version:|aEllmann, Maud, 1954-|tHunger artists.
|dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993
|w(OCoLC)623015273
994 C0|bSTJ
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