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From communion to cannibalism : an anatomy of metaphors of incorporation
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Year: 1990 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Princeton University Press

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Eating their words : cannibalism and the boundaries of cultural identity
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ISBN: 0791450902 0791450899 9780791450901 9780791450895 0791490017 9780791490013 Year: 2001 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Linking cannibalism to issues of difference crucial to contemporary literary criticism and theory, the essays included here cover material from a variety of contexts and historical periods and approach their subjects from a range of critical perspectives. Along with such canonical works as The Odyssey, The Faerie Queene, and Robinson Crusoe, the contributors also discuss lesser known works, including a version of the Victorian melodrama Sweeny Todd, as well as contemporary postcolonial and postmodern novels by Margaret Atwood and Ian Wedde. Taken together, these essays re-theorize the relationship between cannibalism and cultural identity, making cannibalism meaningful within new critical and cultural horizons.Contributors include Mark Buchan, Santiago Colas, Marlene Goldman, Brian Greenspan, Kristen Guest, Minaz Jooma, Robert Viking O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Julia M. Wright.


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Taming Cannibals
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ISBN: 0801462649 0801462630 9780801462634 9780801450198 0801450195 1501730894 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.


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Cannibal writes
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ISBN: 9780252096747 0252096746 9780252038785 0252038789 1322497826 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago

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"Within the field of postcolonial studies, colonial and imperial domination have frequently been connected to metaphors of eating and consumption. At the extreme, cannibalism works as a colonialist trope, and becomes an overarching framework for addressing issues of self, difference, and otherness. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these metaphors of consumption, specifically in works by Caribbean and Indian Ocean women writers in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. Through wide ranging theoretical exploration and insightful readings of texts in both English and French, this project focuses on the visceral appeal of alimentary metaphors and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, political economy, and migration. Githire also explores some of the ways in which cannibalism has surfaced in some contemporary migration debates. The project is ambitiously comparative, including a wide range of well known and lesser known writers in both Caribbean and Indian Ocean contexts--geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but which are rarely brought together in the same study"-- "Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel"--


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Canibalia : canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina
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ISBN: 3954872935 9783954872930 9788484897958 8484897958 9783865273425 3865273424 9783865273420 9783865273452 9788484892991 8484892999 9788484893226 8484893227 9783865273994 3865273998 3964562440 Year: 2008 Volume: 1 Publisher: Madrid: Iberoamericana,

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A lo largo de cinco capítulos centrados en Reinaldo Arenas, Salvador Novo, Armando Reverón, Fernando Vallejo y Mario Bellatin, el autor propone que el cuerpo pasa por los registros visuales y ficcionales para modelarse y ser modelado en un proceso que es siempre incompleto, inestable y, por ello, admite revueltas.

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Latin American literature --- Human body in literature. --- Art, Latin American --- Human figure in art. --- El cuerpo humano en la literatura. --- Arte latinoamericano --- Sexualidad --- Art, Spanish American --- Latin American art --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Historia y crítica. --- Aspectos sociales --- Cannibalism in literature --- Cannibalism --- Indians --- Public opinion --- 860.04 --- 860 <8> --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology --- 860 <8> Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- Spaanse literatuur: Zuid-Amerika --- 860.04 Spaanse literatuur--?.04 --- Spaanse literatuur--?.04 --- Latin America --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Civilization. --- Colonization. --- Thematology --- Spanish-American literature --- History of civilization --- Canibalismo --- Antropofagia --- Cannibalism in literature. --- América Latina. --- Public opinion. --- Art, Latin American. --- Cuerpo humano en arte. --- Cuerpo humano en la literatura. --- Erotik --- Körper --- Latin American literature. --- Literatura latinoamericana. --- History and criticism --- Arenas, Reinaldo, --- Bellatin, Mario, --- Novo, Salvador, --- Reverón, Armando, --- Vallejo, Fernando, --- 1900-1999. --- Latijns-Amerika. --- Civilization --- Colonization --- Cannibalism - Latin America --- Indians - Public opinion --- Public opinion - Europe --- Latin America - Civilization --- Latin America - Colonization

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