Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A Missionary Among Cannibals; Or, the Life of John Hunt
Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Cannibal Fictions
Author: Jeff BerglundPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299215934
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental "otherness," an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff Berglund shows in this study encompassing a strikingly eclectic collection of cultural, literary, and cinematic texts. Cannibal Fictions brings together two discrete periods in U.S. history: the years between the Civil War and World War I, the high-water mark in America's imperial presence, and the post-Vietnam era, when the nation was beginning to seriously question its own global agenda. Berglund shows how P. T. Barnum, in a traveling exhibit featuring so-called "Fiji cannibals," served up an alien "other" for popular consumption, while Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Tarzan of the Apes series tapped into similar anxieties about the eruption of foreign elements into a homogeneous culture. Turning to the last decades of the twentieth century, Berglund considers how treatments of cannibalism variously perpetuated or subverted racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies rooted in earlier times. Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes invokes cannibalism to new effect, offering an explicit critique of racial, gender, and sexual politics (an element to a large extent suppressed in the movie adaptation). Recurring motifs in contemporary Native American writing suggest how Western expansion has, cannibalistically, laid the seeds of its own destruction. And James Dobson's recent efforts to link the pro-life agenda to allegations of cannibalism in China testify still further to the currency and pervasiveness of this powerful trope. By highlighting practices that preclude the many from becoming one, these representations of cannibalism, Berglund argues, call into question the comforting national narrative of e pluribus unum.
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Author: Nancy ShoemakerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501740350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
A Missionary Among Cannibals
Author: Rowe George StringerPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355559597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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A Missionary Among Cannibals, Or, The Life of John Hunt
Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review
Author: The Presbyterian Quarterly Review
Author: The Bibliotheca Sacra and Biblical Repository
Author: A Missionary Among Cannibals: Or, the Life of John Hunt Who Was Eminently Successful in Converting the People of Fiji from Cannibalism to Christiani
Author: George Stringer RowePublisher:
ISBN: 9781425527266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Books for the Sunday School and Family, Including the Publications of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Hitchcock & Walden, firm, publishers, CincinnatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description