Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians - Rilegato

Brantlinger, Patrick

 
9780801450198: Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians
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ISBN 10: 0801450195 ISBN 13: 9780801450198
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2011

Sinossi

In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior—an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.

Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts—including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including Dark Vanishings, Fictions of State, Rule of Darkness, and Bread and Circuses.

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Editore
Cornell Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0801450195
ISBN 13 
9780801450198
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
277
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ISBN 10:  1501730894 ISBN 13:  9781501730894
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2019
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