Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity

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Kristen Guest
State University of New York Press, Sep 6, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 229 pages
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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Contents

Achilles and the Cyclops
11
Cannibalism in Edmund Spensers Faerie Queene Ireland
35
Domestic Economy
57
Familial Cannibalism
79
Are You Being Served? Cannibalism Class and
107
A Critique of Cannibalism
129
Juicy Rumors and the Hollow
149
Apocalyptic
167
Cannibalism and
187
List of Contributors
205
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Kristen Guest is Lecturer at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

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