“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:
bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games

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“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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bloomfield, Jem
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE Publications 2017
Subjects:	popular culture and theology Eucharist Hunger Games dystopia blessing Bible and literature
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35754/

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