The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

by Geoffrey Sanborn

Book Overview

In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory. These investigations not only explore mid-nineteenth century resistance to the colonial enterprise but argue that Melville, using the discourse on cannibalism to critique colonialism, contributed to the production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321181
• ISBN13: 9780822321187
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"