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...Bethany Schneider Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (1935) is a cannibal text. Zitkala-Ša's (Yankton-Nakota) essays “Impressions of an Indian Childhood” and “The School Days of an Indian Girl” (1900) can be found in the guts of the settler-colonial children's novel. Practices...

... the case of Luka Magnotta, the so-called Montreal gay cannibal killer, who murdered, decapitated, and committed acts of cannibalism and necrophilia on the corpse of Jun Lin, an Asian international student. In reading this case, however, the essay aims not only to demonstrate the racialized distribution...

...- erary and the literary-­critical, the viscerality of cannibalism is both ontology and epistemology. As signaled in the title, “A Modest Proposal: Laura Ingalls Wilder Ate Zitkalaa,” Schneider argues that the little white girl’s cannibalization of the spectacle and remains...

... with gusto many rotten Saracen bodies which they had pitched into the swamps two or three weeks ago” (81).14 The cannibalized Saracens, literally incorporated by Christians at Ma’arrat, excorporate in Engelrand’s ghost.15 Crusader cannibalism and martyrdom, each a marker...

...Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . xxix + 277 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Bethany Schneider is associate professor of English at Bryn Mawr College...

... in the Enlightenment. Michelle Raheja is associate professor of English and cofounder of the California Center for Native Nations at the University of California, Riverside. Her research centers on Indigenous feminist and queer literature and visual culture, critical cannibalism studies, and Traditional...

... preferences akin to cannibalism, even as this metaphorical attri- bute of the food is confirmed by the status of those who prefer it.”12 The fictions of race, in other words, translate into culinary fictions, but come to us disguised as “taste” and “preference.” We seek an engagement with the visceral...

.... DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-013 Fantasy Islands Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxix + 277 pp. In Empire Islands...

.... DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-013 Fantasy Islands Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxix + 277 pp. In Empire Islands...

.... DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-013 Fantasy Islands Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxix + 277 pp. In Empire Islands...

.... DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-013 Fantasy Islands Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxix + 277 pp. In Empire Islands...

... in such circumstances is more easily uncovered by considering inequality, agency, powerlessness, and states of dependence. In the first chapter, Fischel deploys a 2001 German case where two “consenting” (i.e., rational and competent) adult men desired that one of them be mutilated, cannibalized, and ultimately...

... that the causes of those phenomena are slowly becoming clearer, even if they remain hazy. Contestations over homosexuality are contested with Western interlocutors . Where witchcraft saw men cannibalizing from a distance, accusations of homosexuality see Maada Bio cannibalizing from the UK. Where witches gain...

... and the Castigation of Desire.” Queering the Renaissance . Ed. Goldberg, Jonathan. Durham: Duke UP, 1993 . 107 -123. Freccero , Carla .“Cannibalism, Homophobia, Women: Montaigne's ‘Des Cannibales’ and ‘De L'amitié.'” Women, “Race” and Writing in the Early Modern Period . Ed. Hendricks, Margo, and Patricia...

..., the object eaten is becoming simultaneously dead and undead, itself/not itself. The repetition of the cannibalizing figure casts a doubtful light on the idea that contemporary zombies are not themselves being implicitly racialized beyond the phenotypically achieved staging...

... the self-­ cannibalizing body. Marechera conflates the eater and the food into a figure with which to narrate the excess and the damage of colonially orchestrated racialism and abuse of power together with their nationalist rehearsal, on the one hand, and has this figure...

... with Wesley Wehr, that “I always tell the truth in my poems.”4 The images of white explorers, cannibalization, and mutilated African women and chil- dren featured in “In the Waiting Room,” however, do not appear in the February 1918 issue of National Geographic but are culled primarily from the magazine’s...

... when he breaks the taboo and eats a neighbor’s prized cabbages (for Otik, closer to cannibalism) that he is put to death. Otesánek can be read as a comment, at a moment of Czech incorporation into the European Union, on the excessive appetites of neoliberalism: the state...

..., demonize interracial desire.3 Although Brincando el charco is unapologetic about same-sex desire, it does not discount gender differences as erotic possi- bilities. To photograph Ray, then, sets up a complex erotics of male gay sexuality and cre- ative cannibalism. It also...

... the transformation of butchery into helpful normalization, Alex insists on a barbarity and cannibalism in Ramiro. They explicitly frame Ramiro's work in terms of consumption, a narrative of coercive surgery that highlights Ramiro's need to bolster his own subjectivity as benevolent patriarch. The final developmental...