The story of the exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies and their enormous impact in the public sphere around 1900.

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New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed best

A book of memories of growing up Jewish in the Midwest suburbs that proves itself literature of the highest order. "Joanne Jacobson�s memoir of postwar suburb

How has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of intolerab