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001    ocm26398199  
003    OCoLC 
005    20200920190541.0 
008    920724s1993    maua     b    001 0 eng   
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050 00 RC552.A5|bE45 1993 
060 00 WM 175|bE47h 11993 
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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. 
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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