Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism

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.

"Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There is a wide-ranging collection of suggestive and lively explorations of a broad variety of evocative instances of figural cannibalism. These essays make a compelling case for the prevailing relevance of the metaphor across multiple disciplines and fields of inquiry. Thoughtfully reassessing cannibalism in the light of recent theoretical perspectives and approaches, the volume’s contributors advocate spiritedly and provocatively for the concept’s enduring potential as a mode of illuminating distinct aspects of human history and socio-economic relations." Luís Madureira, Professor of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Preface: Bites Here and TherePart I Cannibals with (Pitch)Forks Introduction – A Severed Head on a Silver Platter: Bloody Banquets, Revenge Cannibalism and Future FoodwaysGiulia 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 StarkRoberta Marangi ‘You eat or you die’: Sixth Extinction Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative FictionNora CastlePart II The Anthropophagus ComplexIntroduction – The Anthropophagus Complex: Despotic and Overbearing Ogre Figures in Ancient and Medieval Texts and in PsychoanalysisGiulia Champion Cannibalism and the Ancient Novel RevisitedEdmund P. Cueva The Medieval Roots of Anthropophagy: Stereotypes, Metaphors and PracticesAngelica Aurora Montanari Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism: Critical Actions against a Cannibalistic SocietyNicola Viviani ‘We’ve both been his brides’: NBC’s Hannibal, Cannibalism and Psychological Violence in Platonic RelationshipsShehzad RajPart III Not Just Another Piece of MeatIntroduction – Not Just Another Piece of Meat: The Sexual and Epistemological Violence of Gendered OthernessGiulia Champion Criminal Conversion and Cannibalistic Contrition in an Early Modern Spanish Broadsheet BalladStacey 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 TalesSilvia E. Storti Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in order to Theorise an Unthinkability of Sexual ViolenceCecilia Cienfuegos and Ana AbrilPart IV (De)Meatifying and Digesting the OtherIntroduction – 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 IdeaNicholas A. B. Kahn Neo-Cannibalistic Spaces: Revisiting Museum Practice through Literary FictionLouise Logan-Smith The Ethnographic Effect or, Antropofagia, its Past and FutureNelson Shuchmacher Endebo