Taming cannibals: race and the victorians
Auteur :
Brantlinger, Patrick
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501730894
Date de publication :
15 janv. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
454 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist 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...