Hungering as Symbolic Language: What are We Saying When We Starve Ourselves
Author:   Nieves Pascual Soler
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
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9780773439306


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   August 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Hungering as Symbolic Language: What are We Saying When We Starve Ourselves


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Author:   Nieves Pascual Soler
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773439306


ISBN 10:   0773439307
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Affect Hunger; Theories of Affect; The Language of Hunger; 2. In the Skin of Hunger; L'ecriture Faim-inine; You Are What You Eat Not; 3. Secrecy; I Would Hunger for You; The Bare Bones of Poverty; 4. The Hungry Road; Mourning and Melancholy Foods; Eating Metaphors; 5. Hunger Time; Zombies and Transvestites; Fasting for Fun: Franz Kafka; 6. The Architecture of Hunger; The Impulse for Emptiness; Horror of Fullness; 7. The Divided Self.

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...illuminates the complex world of self-imposed emptiness. (Dr. Meredith Abarca University of Texas at El Paso) ...[The author] presents an original idea about a topic that is of great interest to scholars in anthropology, literature, psychology, cultural studies, and gender studies. (Prof. Carole Counihan Millersville University)


"""...illuminates the complex world of self-imposed emptiness."" (Dr. Meredith Abarca University of Texas at El Paso) ""...[The author] presents an original idea about a topic that is of great interest to scholars in anthropology, literature, psychology, cultural studies, and gender studies."" (Prof. Carole Counihan Millersville University)"""


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