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Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity

Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity

Guest, Kristen
Kilgour, Maggie

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0791450899
ISBN13: 9780791450895
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Sep 6 2001
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

Examines the figure of the cannibal as it relates to cultural identity in a wide range of literary and cultural texts.

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.

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