“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”: bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games
The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideological conflict and potential social healing, and dr...
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| description | The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideological conflict and potential social healing, and draws out how this relates to the book’s place within consumer capitalism and Young Adult fiction. It also considers how a Christian interpretation might connect to current tensions around inclusion and identity. |
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| spelling | nottingham-357542020-05-04T18:42:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35754/ “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”: bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games Bloomfield, Jem The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideological conflict and potential social healing, and draws out how this relates to the book’s place within consumer capitalism and Young Adult fiction. It also considers how a Christian interpretation might connect to current tensions around inclusion and identity. SAGE Publications 2017-04-24 Article PeerReviewed Bloomfield, Jem (2017) “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”: bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games. Theology, 120 (3). pp. 190-196. ISSN 2044-2696 popular culture and theology Eucharist Hunger Games dystopia blessing Bible and literature http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0040571X16684430 doi:10.1177/0040571X16684430 doi:10.1177/0040571X16684430 |
| spellingShingle | popular culture and theology Eucharist Hunger Games dystopia blessing Bible and literature Bloomfield, Jem “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”: bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title | “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title_full | “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title_fullStr | “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title_full_unstemmed | “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title_short | “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games |
| title_sort | “my eucharist to the people of district 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in the hunger games |
| topic | popular culture and theology Eucharist Hunger Games dystopia blessing Bible and literature |
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