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Kristen Guest
State University of New York Press

Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity

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AuthorKristen Guest
PublisherState University of New York Press
PublishedJun 17 2003
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780791450901
Dimensions8.94 X 6.28 X 0.49 inches
Weight 0.69 pounds
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CategoriesLiterary Criticism > Semiotics & Theory
LanguageEnglish

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Book Description

Linking cannibalism to issues of difference crucial to contemporary literary criticism and theory, the essays included here cover material from a variety of contexts and historical periods and approach their subjects from a range of critical perspectives. Along with such canonical works as The Odyssey, The Faerie Queene, and Robinson Crusoe, the contributors also discuss lesser known works, including a version of the Victorian melodrama Sweeny Todd, as well as contemporary postcolonial and postmodern novels by Margaret Atwood and Ian Wedde. Taken together, these essays re-theorize the relationship between cannibalism and cultural identity, making cannibalism meaningful within new critical and cultural horizons.

Contributors include Mark Buchan, Santiago Colas, Marlene Goldman, Brian Greenspan, Kristen Guest, Minaz Jooma, Robert Viking O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Julia M. Wright.

Author Bio

Dr. Kristen Guest's research interests are in nineteenth century theatre and Victorian popular culture. "I have published on Victorian melodrama, cannibalism, and on popular authors such as Marie Corelli (the first Big bestseller in the modern sense of the term) and Isabella Beeton (the nineteenth-century Martha Stewart, minus the prison time).

I am currently at work on a SSHRCC funded project focusing on Victorian detective fiction that I hope to publish as a scholarly monograph. This project is exciting for me because it extends my interests popular culture and theatre. It will also include a chapter on depictions of policing and detection in western Canada in popular fiction about the North West Mounted Police. Since taking up residence in Prince George, my husband and I have also tried to explore northern BC as much as possible.

Source: University of Northern British Columbia

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