Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural IdentityKristen Guest 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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... ideological critique . It is the intention of this book to show that the cannibal , long a fig- ure associated with absolute alterity and used to enforce boundaries between a civilized " us " and savage " them , " may in fact be more ...
... ideological critique . It is the intention of this book to show that the cannibal , long a fig- ure associated with absolute alterity and used to enforce boundaries between a civilized " us " and savage " them , " may in fact be more ...
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... ideologies it is evoked to support . Thus , while readings of Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagist Manifesto and Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole recognize the value of cannibal- ism as a metaphor of reverse appropriation , other chapters - on ...
... ideologies it is evoked to support . Thus , while readings of Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagist Manifesto and Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole recognize the value of cannibal- ism as a metaphor of reverse appropriation , other chapters - on ...
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... ideology and biology that govern distinctions based on race and gender , “ savagery " is a problematic point of reference that draws our attention to the difficulties of dividing self from other by calling traditional boundaries of ...
... ideology and biology that govern distinctions based on race and gender , “ savagery " is a problematic point of reference that draws our attention to the difficulties of dividing self from other by calling traditional boundaries of ...
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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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Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity Kristen Guest Limited preview - 2001 |
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