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Hungering as Symbolic Language: What are We Saying When We Starve Ourselves
Author(s): Nieves Pascual Soler (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773439307
- ISBN-13: 9780773439306
Book Description
This book is a study of hunger and hungry persons as a new form of cultural and emotional intensity, posing the subject from an unusual perspective: hunger as affect. Voluntary starvation can cause illness but also contains a positive, almost heroic dimension of renunciation and self-control through which the person is exalted as a human being.
