Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism

Bites Here and There

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-43260-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a conversation on the evolution and the different uses of the tropes and figures of cannibalism, in order to understand and deconstruct the fascination with anthropophagy, its continued afterlife and its relation to different disciplines and spaces of discourse. In order to do so, the contributing authors shed a new light not only on the concept, but also propose to explore cannibalism through new optics and theories. Spanning 15 chapters, the collection explores cannibalism across disciplines and fields from Antiquity to contemporary speculative fiction, considering history, anthropology, visual and film studies, philosophy, feminist theories, psychoanalysis and museum practices. This collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking scholarly contributions suggests the importance of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.

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.

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

‘I’ll play the cook’: Titus Andronicus and the Cannibalism of Revenge from Seneca to Julie Taymor’s Titus
Romola Nuttall

Cannibalism and Femininity: From the Old English Judith to Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark
Roberta Marangi

‘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

Cannibalism and the Ancient Novel Revisited
Edmund P. Cueva

The Medieval Roots of Anthropophagy: Stereotypes, Metaphors and Practices
Angelica Aurora Montanari

Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism: Critical Actions against a Cannibalistic Society
Nicola Viviani

‘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

Criminal Conversion and Cannibalistic Contrition in an Early Modern Spanish Broadsheet Ballad
Stacey L. Parker Aronson

Constructing Transgression: Cannibalism, Witchcraft and Womanhood in Lo Stregozzo
Laura Scalabrella Spada

The Better to Eat You With: The Anthropophagy Plots of Fairy Tales
Silvia E. Storti

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

‘Savages are but shades of ourselves’: Central African Cannibals in Herbert Ward’s Narratives (1890-1910)
Sophie Dulucq

Gastronomes of the Old School: American Iterations of the Cannibal Idea
Nicholas A. B. Kahn

Neo-Cannibalistic Spaces: Revisiting Museum Practice through Literary Fiction
Louise Logan-Smith

The Ethnographic Effect or, Antropofagia, its Past and Future

Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo

Erscheinungsdatum	21.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Warwick Series in the Humanities
Zusatzinfo	11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-43260-9 / 0367432609
ISBN-13	978-0-367-43260-7 / 9780367432607
Zustand	Neuware