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Spoiling the Cannibals’ Fun?

Cannibalism and Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere

by Wojciech Kalaga (Volume editor) Tadeusz Rachwal (Volume editor)
©2005 Edited Collection 252 Pages
Series: Literary and Cultural Theory, Volume 20

Summary

Spoiling the Cannibals’ Fun? is not a volume about Captain Cook, unless one thinks the story of his having been eaten in the Polynesian tropics is not so much about the nourishing of the barbarians with a white man’s flesh, as one which raises a number of questions relating to, broadly understood, cultural encounters in which some sort of cannibalisation is always at stake. For example, an encounter with the other is inevitably also an encounter of what Penelope Deutscher sees as «the cannibal or ‘eating’ subject who is always already the other ‘in us’», an encounter which questions «the integrity of the subject’s boundaries». This volume takes up such various metaphorical senses of cannibalism and cannibalisation, and explores the ways they function within diverse domains and niches of culture (and elsewhere).

Details

Pages
252
Year
2005
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631544846
Language
English
Keywords
Kannibalismus (Motiv) Literatur Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung Melancholy Translation Body Consumerism
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 252 pp.

Biographical notes

Wojciech Kalaga (Volume editor) Tadeusz Rachwal (Volume editor)

The Editors: Wojciech H. Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). He is also Chair of the Department of Literary and Cultural Theory and Director of Institute of British and American Culture and Literature. His publications include Nebulae of Discourse: Interpretation, Textuality and the Subject, and numerous papers on literary and cultural theory. He is also editor-in-chief of journal Er(r)go: Teoria - Literatura - Kultura. Tadeusz Rachwał is Professor of English at Warsaw School of Social Psychology. He authored and edited books and articles on British and American literature, literary theory, cultural and gender studies. He used to work at the University of Silesia and the Academy of Technical and Human Sciences in Bielsko Biała.

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