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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458337703321

Autore

Berglund Jeff

Titolo

Cannibal fictions [[electronic resource] ] : American explorations of colonialism, race, gender and sexuality / / Jeff Berglund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-76413-6

9786612764134

0-299-21593-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 233 p. )

Disciplina

813.009/3559

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Cannibalism in literature

Literature and society - United States

Imperialism in literature

Sex role in literature

Race in literature

Sex in literature

Cannibalism

American fiction - History and criticism - United States

Literature and society

English

American Literature

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Ray and Pat Browne book"--Ser. t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

P.T. Barnum's American Exhibition of Fiji Cannibals (1871-1873) -- Literacy, Imperialism, Race and Cannibalism in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes -- The Cannibal at Home: The Secret of Fried Green Tomatoes -- Turning Back the Cannibal: Indigenous Revisionism in the Late Twentieth Century.