Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas

by Zita Nunes

Book Overview

Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue.

Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816648417
• ISBN13: 9780816648412
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"