Cannibalism in literature

This article is about representations of cannibalism in literary works created before World War I. For newer works, see Cannibalism in popular culture.

Representation of cannibals exists adjacent to the representation of any culture associated with alterity, political discourse, or blasphemous rhetoric.[1][2] Homer's Odyssey, Beowulf, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Flaubert's Salammbo, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Melville's Moby Dick each feature a type of cannibalistic representation that is larger than the ambiguity of cultural versus survival cannibalism.[2]

  1. ^ Blurton, Heather (2007). Cannibalism in high medieval English literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-7443-3. OCLC 123798600.
  2. ^ a b Rawson, Claude (24 January 1985). "Eating people". London Review of Books. Vol. 07, no. 1. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 8 April 2022.