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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widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.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.

Race relations --- Cannibalism --- Racism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Cannibalism in literature. --- English literature --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- History --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain

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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"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Women and literature --- Cannibalism in literature. --- Caribbean literature --- Literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Indian Ocean Region --- Indian Ocean Rim countries --- In literature.

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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.

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