Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural IdentityLinking 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
Introduction Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Identity KRISTEN GUEST | 1 |
Food for Thought Achilles and the Cyclops | 11 |
Cannibalism in Edmund Spensers Faerie Queene Ireland and the Americas | 35 |
Robinson Crusoe Incorporates Domestic Economy Incest and the Trope of Cannibalism | 57 |
Devouring the DisinheritedFamilial Cannibalism in Maturins Melmoth the Wanderer | 79 |
Are You Being Served? Cannibalism Class and Victorian Melodrama | 107 |
From Caliban to CronusA Critique of Cannibalism as Metaphor for Cuban Revolutionary Culture | 129 |
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| Title | Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity Cultural studies Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity |
| Editor | Kristen Guest |
| Contributors | Maggie Kilgour, Molson Professor of English Language and Literature Maggie Kilgour |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0791450899, 9780791450895 |
| Length | 219 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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