Hunger and Postcolonial Writing

Hunger and Postcolonial Writing explores contemporary postcolonial fiction and life-writing from various geo-political contexts.

The focus of this work is hunger; individuated in the self-imposed starvation of the hunger protester, and on a mass scale in the form of famine and food insecurity. It considers the hungry colonial and postcolonial body, examines its textual forms and historical trajectories, and situates it within the food security context of imperialism and its legacies. This b...