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Cannibal fictions : American explorations of colonialism, race, gender and sexuality / Jeff Berglund.

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Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental "otherness," an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff Berglund shows in this study encompassing a strikingly ecle...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Berglund, Jeff
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Cannibalism in literature.
Literature and society > United States.
Imperialism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Cannibalism.
American fiction
Cannibalism
Cannibalism in literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
Race in literature
Sex in literature
Sex role in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • P.T. Barnum's American Exhibition of Fiji Cannibals (1871-1873)
  • Literacy, Imperialism, Race and Cannibalism in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes
  • The Cannibal at Home: The Secret of Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Turning Back the Cannibal: Indigenous Revisionism in the Late Twentieth Century.

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