Su, Cui. 2010. Famine - A Crisis of History and Rhetoric. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]

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This work examines how famine memory is used in conceptualizing various modes of subjecthood. It traces both the changing and repetitive registers that the Western notion of famine has taken as ways to narrate the poor and the notion of humanitarianism. Using late nineteenth-century Bengal as an example, I will show how morality, land economics and liberal science has served as vehicles for generating a normalized, axiomatic notion of what it means to be charitable and for constituting different historical Others in the process. The significance of this is to raise broader questions of how famine memory might inflect our response to suffering.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.00036350
Keywords:	famine, memory, ethics, Bengal
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	2010
Item ID:	36350
Date Deposited:	17 May 2024 08:52
Last Modified:	17 May 2024 08:58
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36350

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