The Hungry Ghost, a concept based in Buddhist and Taoist beliefs, is a lost spirit that roams burdened by unmet needs. Driven by insatiable greed and intense desires, the Hungry Ghost wanders, searches and feeds. In Chinese folk religion, families prepare food offerings for deceased relatives to keep hungry ghosts at bay.
Hungry Ghost: Yearning for Fulfillment asks you to interpret and illuminate this powerful, culturally rich metaphor. How do Asian American women artists express deep emotional and physical desires? How do we relate to the idea of isolation and alienation? How do we reconcile our Asian backgrounds and American surroundings? How do food and family shape our identity? How do we deal with consumption and compulsion? How do we crave acceptance and fulfillment? What feeds us?
DEADLINE MARCH 6, 2012 Midnight
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as much as i like Black Marxism…can I focus on this entry instead of working on my paper for Black Marxism :(
mostly because this is something my spirit and the “ghosts” of my childhood needs right now (in fact they have been demanding that for a while now…)
