| Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity Contributor(s): Guest, Kristen (Editor), Kilgour, Maggie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791450902 ISBN-13: 9780791450901 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 00053152 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.28" W x 8.94" (0.69 lbs) 229 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Contributors include Mark Buchan, Santiago Colas, Marlene Goldman, Brian Greenspan, Kristen Guest, Minaz Jooma, Robert Viking O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Julia M. Wright. |