Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism Bites Here and There

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.Spanning15 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.

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 ‘I’ll play the cook’: Titus Andronicus and the Cannibalism of Revenge from Seneca to Julie Taymor’s Titus Romola Nuttall Cannibalism and Femininity: From the Old English Judith to Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark Roberta Marangi ‘You eat or you die’: Sixth Extinction Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction 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 Cannibalism and the Ancient Novel Revisited Edmund P. Cueva The Medieval Roots of Anthropophagy: Stereotypes, Metaphors and Practices Angelica Aurora Montanari Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism: Critical Actions against a Cannibalistic Society Nicola Viviani ‘We’ve both been his brides’: NBC’s Hannibal, Cannibalism and Psychological Violence in Platonic Relationships 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 Criminal Conversion and Cannibalistic Contrition in an Early Modern Spanish Broadsheet Ballad Stacey L. Parker Aronson Constructing Transgression: Cannibalism, Witchcraft and Womanhood in Lo Stregozzo Laura Scalabrella Spada The Better to Eat You With: The Anthropophagy Plots of Fairy Tales Silvia E. Storti Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in order to Theorise an Unthinkability of Sexual Violence Cecilia Cienfuegos and Ana Abril Part IV (De)Meatifying and Digesting the Other Introduction – Decolonising Cannibalism from Travel Writing to Brazilian Antropofagia ‘Savages are but shades of ourselves’: Central African Cannibals in Herbert Ward’s Narratives (1890-1910) Sophie Dulucq Gastronomes of the Old School: American Iterations of the Cannibal Idea Nicholas A. B. Kahn Neo-Cannibalistic Spaces: Revisiting Museum Practice through Literary Fiction Louise Logan-Smith The Ethnographic Effect or, Antropofagia, its Past and Future Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo

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 andenergy humanities.