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 identities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816648409
• ISBN13: 9780816648405
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages