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dc.contributor.authorDe Marchi, Serena
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-01T12:24:03Z
dc.date.available2022-06-01T12:24:03Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855185066_615
dc.identifier.issn2704-5919
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56430
dc.description.abstractDuring 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.subject.otherFood
dc.subject.othermemory
dc.subject.otherprison
dc.subject.otherlaogai
dc.subject.otherprison writing
dc.subject.otherhunger
dc.subject.othercontemporary Chinese literature
dc.titleChapter Eat to remember. Gastronomical reconfigurations of hunger and imprisonment in contemporary Chinese literature
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855185066
oapen.series.number233
oapen.pages16
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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