Representations of Cannibalism: readings
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Jörg Dünne, Ludwig Maximilians Universität
Students will have access to a course pack with the texts under discussion. For Introductory Reading: - Lestringant, Frank (1997): Cannibals. The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne. Transl. Rosemary Morris. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Primary Sources: - Columbus, Christopher (1992): The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: Penguin.
- De Bry, Theodor (1976): Discovering the New World. Ed. Michael Alexander. New York: Harper & Row.
- Léry, Jean de (1992): History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Montaigne, Michel de (1993): The Complete Essays. Ed. Michael Screech. New York: Penguin.
- Staden, Hans (1928, repr. 2004): The True History of his Captivity. Ed. Malcolm Letts. London: Routledge.
- Shakespeare, William: The Tempest [any edition of Shakespeare’s works will do].
- Vespucci, Amerigo (1992): Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America. Ed. Luciano Formisano /David Jacobson. New York: Marsilio.
Film: - Pereira dos Santos, Nelson: How Tasty was my Little Frenchman. DVD 2007 (New Yorker).
Works of Reference: - Arens, Walter (1979): The Man Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. Oxford: Oxford UP.
- Bucher, Bernadette (1979): Icon and Conquest: A Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of De Bry’s Great Voyages. Chicago: Chicago UP
- Freud, Sigmund (1962): Totem and Taboo. Stabdard edition of the Works of S.F., vol XIII. New York: Norton
- Hulme, Peter (1992): Colonial Encounters; Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London: Routledge 1992.
- Hulme, Peter/William H. Sherman (2000) (eds.): “The Tempest” and Its Travels. London: Reaktion Books.
- Kilgour, Maggie (1990): From Communion to Cannibalism. An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation. Princeton: Princeton UP.
- Rabasa, José (1993): Inventing America. Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism. Norman: Oklahoma UP.
