This book brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This collection of thoughtful and though-provoking scholarly contributions sheds light on and suggests the important of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.
Giulia Champion is an Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her PhD investigated the tropes of extraction and cannibalism as decolonial approaches to literature emerging from the American and African continents. She is currently working on transdisciplinary climate change communication, material histories and the blue and energy humanities.
Preface: Bites Here and There
Part I Cannibals with (Pitch)Forks
Introduction - A Severed Head on a Silver Platter: Bloody Banquets, Revenge Cannibalism and Future Foodways
Giulia Champion
Romola Nuttall
Roberta Marangi
Nora Castle
Part II The Anthropophagus Complex
Introduction - The Anthropophagus Complex: Despotic and Overbearing Ogre Figures in Ancient and Medieval Texts and in Psychoanalysis
Giulia Champion
Edmund P. Cueva
Angelica Aurora Montanari
Nicola Viviani
Shehzad Raj
Part III Not Just Another Piece of Meat
Introduction - Not Just Another Piece of Meat: The Sexual and Epistemological Violence of Gendered Otherness
Giulia Champion
Stacey L. Parker Aronson
Laura Scalabrella Spada
Silvia E. Storti
Cecilia Cienfuegos and Ana Abril
Part IV (De)Meatifying and Digesting the Other
Introduction - Decolonising Cannibalism from Travel Writing to Brazilian Antropofagia
Sophie Dulucq
Nicholas A. B. Kahn
Louise Logan-Smith
Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo