Volume 19, Numbers 1-2

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This issue addresses the referential and figural use of hunger. What is hunger? Is it a sign of our humanity or animality? Who is the paradigmatic subject of hunger? Is its meaning transhistorical and transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus irremediably discursive and historically contingent? Whose hunger is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Is hunger an ontological or ontic concern? Is it a metaphysical desire (the hunger for recognition) or a biological need (the hunger for food)? Is hunger a global problem to be eradicated, or a perpetual reminder of our embodiment and exposure to others? Can an inquiry into hunger ever be disentangled from biopolitics? Can we speak of both an aesthetics of hunger and a hunger for aesthetics? Is intellectual hunger a desire for disciplinarity, a taste for theory?

Contents

Zahi Zalloua
Theorizing Hunger

Christian Moraru
To Eat Is a Compromise

Peter Atterton
Nourishing the Hunger of the Other

Rebecca Gould
Modernity, Madness, Disenchantment

Alys Moody
Tasteless Beckett

Matthew Mullins
Hunger, Apocalypse, and Modernity

Sophia A. McClennen
Hunger in Brazilian Cinema

Nicole Simek
Hunger Ironies in the French Antilles

Leslie Heywood
Hunger, Emotions, and Sport

Ranjan Ghosh
Aesthetics of Hunger

Lynn Z. Bloom
Feeding Hunger