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Pages: 328
Authors: Roger Célestin
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The objective to this study is, essentially, to arrive at a view of exoticism as a relation between (Western) Self and (exotic) Other that is fluctuatingly tenu
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-15 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has op
Cannibal Fictions
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Authors: Jeff Berglund
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-15 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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 imaginatio
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
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Authors: Cătălin Avramescu
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The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western
Eating and Being Eaten
Language: en
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Authors: B. Nyamnjoh
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This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sun