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race and the Victorians
By Patrick Brantlinger
"Taming cannibals" was published by Cornell University Press in 2011 - Ithaca, it has 288 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: Taming cannibals
- Author: Patrick Brantlinger
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 288
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publish Date: 2011
- Publish Location: Ithaca
“Taming cannibals” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Cannibalism in literature - Cannibalism - Race relations - English literature - History and criticism - Racism in literature - Race in literature - History - English literature, history and criticism, 19th century - Great britain, history, 19th century - Continental Population Groups
- Places: Great Britain
- Time: 19th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p. cm.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24827892M - OL15921494W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 706965785
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2011009588
- ISBN-13: 9780801450198
- All ISBNs: 9780801450198
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"Taming cannibals" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Missionaries and cannibals in nineteenth-century Fiji
- 2- King Billy's bones : the last Tasmanians
- 3- Going native in nineteenth-century history and literature
- 4- "God works by races" : Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew tent
- 5- Race and class in the 1860s
- 6- The unbearable lightness of being Irish
- 7- Mummy love : H. Rider Haggard and racial archaeology
- 8- Shadows of the coming race
- 9- Epilogue : Kipling's The white man's burden and its afterlives.
"Taming cannibals" Description:
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From the dust jacket. In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperial 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widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior -- an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.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 -- including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.
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