| Description |
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cultural margins ; [5] |
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Cultural margins ; 5
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: The cannibal scene / Peter Hulme --2. Rethinking anthropophagy / William Arens -- 3. Cannibal feasts in nineteenth-century Fiji: seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination / Gananath Obeyesekere -- 4. Brazilian anthropophagy revisited /Sergio Luiz Prado Bellei -- 5. Lapses in taste: 'cannibal-tropicalist' cinema and the Brazilian aesthetic of underdevelopment / Luis Madureira -- 6. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory /Graham Huggan -- 7. Cronos and the political economy of vampirism: notes on a historical constellation /John Kraniauskas -- 8. Fee fie to fum: the child in the jaws of the story / Marina Warner -- 9. Cannibalism qua capitalism: the metaphorics of accumulation in Marx, Conrad, Shakespeare and Marlowe /Jerry Phillips -- 10. Consumerism, or the cultural logic of late cannibalism / Crystal Bartolovich -- 11. The function of cannibalism at the present time /Maggie Kilgour |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-303) and index |
| Subject |
Cannibalism in literature.
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Cannibalism.
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| Author |
Barker, Francis, 1952-
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Hulme, Peter.
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Iversen, Margaret.
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| LC no. |
97044368 |
| ISBN |
0521621186 |
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052162908X |
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