The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (New Americanists),Used

The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (New Americanists),Used

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In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the postEnlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory. These investigations not only explore midnineteenth century resistance to the colonial enterprise but argue that Melville, using the discourse on cannibalism to critique colonialism, contributed to the production of resistance.Sanborn focuses on the representations of cannibalism in three of Melvilles key textsTypee, MobyDick, and Benito Cereno. Drawing on accounts of Pacific voyages from two centuries and virtually the entire corpus of the postEnlightenment discourse on cannibalism, he shows how Melville used his narratives to work through the ways in which cannibalism had been understood. In so doing, argues Sanborn, Melville sought to move his readers through stages of possible responses to the phenomenon in order to lead them to consider alternatives to established assumptions and conventionsto understand that in the savage they see primarily their own fear and fascination. Melville thus becomes a narrator of the postcolonial encounter as he uncovers the dynamic of dread and menace that marks the Western construction of the nonsavage human.Extending the work of Slavoj Zizek and Homi Bhabha while providing significant new insights into the work of Melville, The Sign of the Cannibal represents a breakthrough for students and scholars of postcolonial theory, American literary history, critical anthropology, race, and masculinity.

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