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Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Hardcover

Series: Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus t

Literary CriticismGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0745616976
ISBN13: 9780745616971
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the reality of the cannibal, and explores the deployment of the image in European literature and legend.

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