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oapen-20.500.12657-564302022-06-02T03:27:06Z 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. 2022-06-01T12:24:03Z 2022-06-01T12:24:03Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855185066_615 2704-5919 9788855185066 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56430 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 29723.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-506-6_11 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.12 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855185066 233 16 Florence open access
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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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