ABSTRACT
Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a conversation on the evolution and the different uses of the tropes and figures of cannibalism, in order to understand and deconstruct the fascination with anthropophagy, its continued afterlife and its relation to different disciplines and spaces of discourse. In order to do so, the contributing authors shed a new light not only on the concept, but also propose to explore cannibalism through new optics and theories. Spanning 15 chapters, the collection explores cannibalism across disciplines and fields from Antiquity to contemporary speculative fiction, considering history, anthropology, visual and film studies, philosophy, feminist theories, psychoanalysis and museum practices. This collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking scholarly contributions suggests the importance of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|59 pages
Cannibals with (Pitch)Forks
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|15 pages
‘I’ll Play the Cook’
chapter 2|18 pages
Cannibalism and Femininity
chapter 3|18 pages
‘You Eat or You Die’
part II|73 pages
The Anthropophagus Complex
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
chapter 6|18 pages
Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism
chapter 7|16 pages
‘We’ve Both Been His Brides’
part III|71 pages
Not Just Another Piece of Meat
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
chapter 11|16 pages
Cannibalising Violence
part IV|75 pages
(De)Meatifying and Digesting the Other