The mouth that begs : hunger, cannibalism, and the politics of eating in modern China /

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The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yue, Gang, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Colección:Post-contemporary interventions.
Temas:
1900-1999
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Hunger in literature.
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
Chinese Americans > Intellectual life.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Littérature chinoise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Faim dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine chinoise > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Vie intellectuelle.
Américains d'origine chinoise dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
American literature > Chinese American authors
Chinese Americans in literature
Chinese literature
Hunger in literature
Politics in literature
Kannibalismus
Geschichte
Literatur
Hunger
Levensmiddelen.
Littérature chinoise > Thèmes, motifs.
Science politique > Dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Faim > Dans la littérature.
China
Chinesisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discoursing Food: Some Notes toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China
  • The Social Embodiment of Modernity
  • Lu Xun and Cannibalism
  • Shen Congwen's "Modest Proposal"
  • Writing Hunger: From Mao to the Dao
  • Hunger Revolution and Revolutionary Hunger
  • Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng
  • The Return (of) Cannibalism after Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit
  • Monument Revisited: Zheng Yi and Liu Zhenyun
  • From Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland
  • Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  • Embodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang
  • Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan.

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