Section I. Memory and Trauma -- 1. Writing Hunger in the Nazi Ghettos: The Search for Context and the Experience of Its Absence in Leyb Goldin's 'Chronicle of a Single Day' and Oskar Rosenfeld's 'Golem and Hunger'; Sven-Erik Rose -- 2. Thinking the Bengal Famine: Catastrophe, Geography, and the Narrative Genres; Sourit Bhattacharya -- 3. 'A Sound Without a Message': Embodied Memory, Childhood, and the Representation of Famine in Oksana Zabushko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets; Anastasia Ulanowicz -- Section II. The Body and the Body Politic -- 4. A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People; Sherene Seikaly -- 5. Gendered Political Economies and the Feminization of Hunger: M.F.K. Fisher and the Cold War Culture Wars; Christina Van Houten -- 6. Gourmand or Glutton?: Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Representations of the Corpulent in a Climate of Want; Rachael Newberry -- Section III. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts -- 7. Refusing to Represent the Great Hunger: Metaphor and the Palimpsest in Irish Film; Dana Och -- 8. (Trans-) National Iconographies of Hunger in Cold War America; Katharina Fackler -- 9. Feeding the Wiindigoo: Bureaucracy and Hunger in Native Literatures; Joshua Miner -- 10. Unthinking Consumption and Arrested Melancholia in Bienvenido Santos' "The Excursionists"; Malini Johar Schueller.