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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, 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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Studi e saggi,
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Firenze University Press : Firenze University Press.,
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English
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9788855185066
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computer
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online resource
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MEMORY
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82244
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10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12
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