Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism (eBook, ePUB)

Bites Here and There
Redaktion: Champion, Giulia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This collection of thoughtful and though-provoking scholarly contributions sheds light on and suggests the important of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000373899
• Artikelnr.: 61272492

Autorenporträt

Giulia Champion is an Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her PhD investigated the tropes of extraction and cannibalism as decolonial approaches to literature emerging from the American and African continents. She is currently working on transdisciplinary climate change communication, material histories and the blue and energy humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Bites Here and There
Part I Cannibals with (Pitch)Forks
Introduction - A Severed Head on a Silver Platter: Bloody Banquets, Revenge
Cannibalism and Future Foodways
Giulia Champion
1. 'I'll play the cook': Titus Andronicus and the Cannibalism of Revenge
from Seneca to Julie Taymor's Titus
Romola Nuttall
2. Cannibalism and Femininity: From the Old English Judith to Game of
Thrones' Arya Stark
Roberta Marangi
3. 'You eat or you die': Sixth Extinction Cannibalism in Contemporary
Speculative Fiction
Nora Castle
Part II The Anthropophagus Complex
Introduction - The Anthropophagus Complex: Despotic and Overbearing
Ogre Figures in Ancient and Medieval Texts and in Psychoanalysis
Giulia Champion
4. Cannibalism and the Ancient Novel Revisited
Edmund P. Cueva
5. The Medieval Roots of Anthropophagy: Stereotypes, Metaphors and
Practices
Angelica Aurora Montanari
6. Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism: Critical Actions
against a Cannibalistic Society
Nicola Viviani
7. 'We've both been his brides': NBC's Hannibal, Cannibalism and
Psychological Violence in Platonic Relationships
Shehzad Raj
Part III Not Just Another Piece of Meat
Introduction - Not Just Another Piece of Meat: The Sexual and
Epistemological Violence of Gendered Otherness
Giulia Champion
8. Criminal Conversion and Cannibalistic Contrition in an Early Modern
Spanish Broadsheet Ballad
Stacey L. Parker Aronson
9. Constructing Transgression: Cannibalism, Witchcraft and Womanhood in
Lo Stregozzo
Laura Scalabrella Spada
10. The Better to Eat You With: The Anthropophagy Plots of Fairy Tales
Silvia E. Storti
11. Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in order to Theorise
an Unthinkability of Sexual Violence
Cecilia Cienfuegos and Ana Abril
Part IV (De)Meatifying and Digesting the Other
Introduction - Decolonising Cannibalism from Travel Writing to
Brazilian Antropofagia
12. 'Savages are but shades of ourselves': Central African Cannibals in
Herbert Ward's Narratives (1890-1910)
Sophie Dulucq
13. Gastronomes of the Old School: American Iterations of the Cannibal
Idea
Nicholas A. B. Kahn
14. Neo-Cannibalistic Spaces: Revisiting Museum Practice through Literary
Fiction
Louise Logan-Smith
15. The Ethnographic Effect or, Antropofagia, its Past and Future
Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo