The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger

Offers a multidisciplinary, yet cohesive set of contributions on the topic, with areas covered ranging from Victorian literature to Postcolonial literature and culture, Memory Studies to Eastern European and Jewish Studies Uses close readings of specific cultural artifacts to engage with and concretize the historical and theoretical interventions offered by previously-published foundational works on hunger and culture Addresses the politics of modern hunger through the discourse of transcendental human rights in relation to the rights provided by nation-states to their citizens