Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas

(Part of the Critical American Studies Series)

by Zita Nunes

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Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue. Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0816648409

ISBN13:9780816648405

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:240 Pages

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