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Taming Cannibals
2011
Overview
InTaming 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widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with \"lesser\" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even \"fitter\" or \"higher\" race or species.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-includingRobinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe,Fiji and the Fijiansby Thomas Williams,Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmaniansby James Bonwick,The Descent of Manby Charles Darwin,Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad,Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold,Sheby H. Rider Haggard, andThe War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and richTaming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Cannibalism -- History -- 19th century
/ Class
/ DISCRIMINATION & RACE RELATIONS
/ ENGLAND
/ English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ eugenics
/ European
/ History
/ HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
/ Ireland
/ Irish
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ Race relations -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
/ racism
ISBN
9780801450198, 0801450195, 1501730894, 9781501730894
