Chapter Eat to remember. Gastronomical reconfigurations of hunger and imprisonment in contemporary Chinese literature
During the famine that befell China following the disaster of the Great Leap Forward, hunger was a major affliction for the individuals undergoing reform in the labor camps. Food – in terms of procurement, consumption, or just discursive recollection – was a central issue in the prisoners’ lives and...
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| description | During the famine that befell China following the disaster of the Great Leap Forward, hunger was a major affliction for the individuals undergoing reform in the labor camps. Food – in terms of procurement, consumption, or just discursive recollection – was a central issue in the prisoners’ lives and, as a consequence, descriptions of meals and eating practices are a recurring presence in modern Chinese literary texts that revolve around carceral experiences. This contribution investigates three literary works that reconstruct personal experiences of imprisonment by way of eating: Wang Ruowang’s Hunger Trilogy (1980), Zhang Xianliang’s Mimosa (1984), and Yang Xianhui’s Chronicles of Jiabiangou (2003). In these texts, food becomes a privileged perspective through which look at how personal and collective memories are re-appropriated and re-elaborated, as well as to analyze how narratives of the past are consumed and produced. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-822442022-06-02T04:06:38Z Chapter Eat to remember. Gastronomical reconfigurations of hunger and imprisonment in contemporary Chinese literature De Marchi, Serena Food memory prison laogai prison writing hunger contemporary Chinese literature During the famine that befell China following the disaster of the Great Leap Forward, hunger was a major affliction for the individuals undergoing reform in the labor camps. Food – in terms of procurement, consumption, or just discursive recollection – was a central issue in the prisoners’ lives and, as a consequence, descriptions of meals and eating practices are a recurring presence in modern Chinese literary texts that revolve around carceral experiences. This contribution investigates three literary works that reconstruct personal experiences of imprisonment by way of eating: Wang Ruowang’s Hunger Trilogy (1980), Zhang Xianliang’s Mimosa (1984), and Yang Xianhui’s Chronicles of Jiabiangou (2003). In these texts, food becomes a privileged perspective through which look at how personal and collective memories are re-appropriated and re-elaborated, as well as to analyze how narratives of the past are consumed and produced. 2022-06-02T04:06:37Z 2022-06-02T04:06:37Z 2022-06-01T12:24:03Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855185066_615 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56430 9788855185066 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82244 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56430/1/29723.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855185066 16 Florence open access |
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