LEADER 00000cam 2201033 a 4500 001 ocm26398199 003 OCoLC 005 20200920190541.0 008 920724s1993 maua b 001 0 eng 010 92028901 015 GB9551995|2bnb 016 7 9317851|2DNLM 019 29359750|a60252139|a715413811 020 067442705X|q(acid-free paper) 020 9780674427051|q(acid-free paper) 035 (OCoLC)26398199|z(OCoLC)29359750|z(OCoLC)60252139 |z(OCoLC)715413811 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dOCL|dAGL|dNLM|dNLGGC|dBTCTA|dBAKER|dYDXCP |dOCLCG|dUKV3G|dGEBAY|dCHRRO|dBDX|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dSNK |dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCL|dDEBBG|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dDHA |dOCLCQ|dIOG|dL2U|dOCLCO|dOCL|dOCLCA|dMM9 043 e-uk-ni 049 STJJ 050 00 RC552.A5|bE45 1993 060 00 WM 175|bE47h 11993 070 0 RC552.A5E45|b1993 072 0 T300 072 7 s1ps|2rero 072 7 s2ss|2rero 082 00 306.4|220 084 17.93|2bcl 084 89.58|2bcl 084 EC 5410|2rvk 084 17.93.|2bcl 084 89.58.|2bcl 084 EC 5410.|2rvk 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. 600 10 Richardson, Samuel,|d1689-1761.|tClarissa. 600 12 Richardson, Samuel,|d1689-1761. 600 17 Richardson, Samuel,|d1689-1761.|0(NL-LeOCL)069343233|2nta 630 07 Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01356137 647 7 Irish Hunger Strike|c(Northern Ireland :|d1981)|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00978963 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. 650 2 Anorexia Nervosa.|0(DNLM)D000856 650 2 Literature.|0(DNLM)D008091 650 2 Politics.|0(DNLM)D011057 650 2 Social Conditions.|0(DNLM)D012924 650 2 Warfare.|0(DNLM)D014857 650 7 17.93 themes and motives in literature.|0(NL- LeOCL)077599292|2bcl 650 7 89.58 political violence.|0(NL-LeOCL)077609042|2bcl 650 7 Anorexia nervosa in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00809962 650 7 Anorexia nervosa|xPolitical aspects.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00809955 650 7 Anorexia nervosa|xSocial aspects.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00809959 650 7 Anorexia nervosa|2gnd|0(DE-588)4002144-0 650 7 Gesellschaft|2gnd|0(DE-588)4020588-5 650 7 Hungerstreik|2gnd|0(DE-588)4160817-3 650 7 Literatur|2gnd|0(DE-588)4035964-5 650 7 contestation politique|xlittérature|xpersonne célèbre |xprivation (psychologie)|2rero 650 7 anorexie mentale|xartiste|xcontestation politique|xgrève de la faim.|2rero 650 7 anorexie mentale|xgrève de la faim|xpouvoir|xprivation (psychologie)|2rero 650 7 anorexie mentale|xcontestation politique|xpouvoir|xvie culturelle.|2rero 650 07 Geschichte (1981)|2swd 650 17 Hongerstakingen.|2gtt 650 17 Letterkunde.|2gtt 650 17 Dwangmiddelen.|2gtt 650 17 Clarissa, or, the history of a young lady (Richardson) |2gtt 651 2 Northern Ireland.|0(DNLM)D009660 651 7 Northern Ireland.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205215 651 7 Nordirland|2gnd|0(DE-588)4075462-5 776 08 |iOnline version:|aEllmann, Maud, 1954-|tHunger artists. |dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993 |w(OCoLC)623015273 994 C0|bSTJ
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