Anderson / Halberstam / Lowe So Much Wasted

Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9329-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Patrick

Halberstam, Judith

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Hunger in the Event of Subjectivity 1

1. The Archive of Anorexia 30

2. Enduring Performance 57

3. How to Stage Self-Consumption 85

4. To Lie Down to Death for Days 110

Afterword: The Ends of Hunger 138

Notes 153

References 173

Index 185

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor of Communication and a faculty affiliate of Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is a co-editor of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict.