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Spoiling the Cannibals' Fun?

Cannibalism and Cannibalisation in Culture and Elsewhere

Herausgegeben: Kalaga, Wojciech; Rachwal, Tadeusz

Beschreibung

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).

Autor

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 Rachwal 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 Biala.

Produktdetails

• Literary and Cultural Theory 20
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 54484
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 14mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9783631544846
• ISBN-10: 3631544847
• Artikelnr.: 24627594