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Book Chapter
Discovering Cannibals
2015
Overview
This chapter discusses the connection between sexuality and conquest, particularly on the ideas envisioned in Samuel Eliot Morison's book, The Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Morison describes the American continents as a virginal woman and Spanish exploration as sexual conquest. He states that the colonizers showed up in Americas without their permission and laid claim to lands and people who could not object because they were not even aware that a claim was being made. Thus, rape would be an appropriate metaphor if one would describe their first meeting in sexual terms. In relation to this claim, the chapter explores the discourse of Carib cannibalism as gendered in a variety of complex ways. European writings about the New World demonstrated preconceived notions about proper displays of gender and sexuality, and these assumptions led them to construct Indians as inferior Others.
Publisher
NYU Press
Subject
ISBN
9780814763476, 0814763472
