“To Eat Is a Compromise”: Theory, Identity, and Dietary Politics after Kafka
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Christian Moraru, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: "La faim, c'est moi"- hunger is me- confesses Amélie Nothomb's heroine in Biographie de la faim (The Biography of Hunger) (22). A strange statement, of course, but no stranger than the Flaubertian dictum it evokes. So what exactly does Nothomb acknowledge here? More to the point: what does it mean to suspect that one's identity gels around hunger (20), that, more generally, being is insatiable, grounded by a fundamental and ever-replenished "insufficiency" (satus is Latin for "enough," as the reader will recall)?
“To Eat Is a Compromise”: Theory, Identity, and Dietary Politics after Kafka
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Additional Information
- Publication
- symploke 19.1-2 (2011): 11-16
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Literary Theory, Identity, Post Modernism