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Cannibal: ‘A man ( esp. a savage) that eats human flesh; a man-eater, an anthropophagite.' OED.
From the perspective of anthropology and sociology there are many different reasons for cannibalism: necessity in extreme situations, insanity, social and sexual deviance, as well as cultural and ritualistic reasons, as in the context of war or religious practice. As such, cannibalism as a complex concept has been a source of fearful fascination for writers and is present in some of the most defining texts of literary history. (ref: Homer's The Odyssey , Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe .)
As the most perverse of social taboos, acts of cannibalism and their representation in art and literature function as philosophical explorations of social and cultural limits as well as the boundaries that define Western concepts of ‘the human' and the ‘monstrous'. In considerations of this transgressive and controversial topic, literary analysis necessarily extends to an examination of themes such as primitivity, insanity, nature, ritual etc; as well as important and demanding ethical questions and the issue of the intense fear, horror and disgust that the ‘abhorrent' act of cannibalism instills in the reader.
Putting cannibalism in historical and cultural context, it is notable that since the beginnings of European colonisation in Asia, Africa and the Americas, the imagined ‘Cannibal' has been represented in various writings as part of a rhetorical strategy for designating perceived Western cultural superiority. This image, as presented to European readers over time, grew increasingly barbaric, revolting, and unspeakable.
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Maria Beville
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde. Forudsætningen for, at undervisningen forløber tilfredsstillende, er de studerendes regelmæssige tilstedeværelse samt aktive deltagelse i de faglige diskussioner.
Engelsk
This course will discuss the ‘meaning' and context of the literary representation of cannibalistic acts from literary works such as H. Rider Haggard's She, where the foreigner faces the threat that they may be slain by "the pot" and eaten, The Rats in the Walls by H.P Lovecraft, through to more contemporary writings like Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flag, and more recently Cormac McCarthy's The Road .
These works will be studied alongside references and analyses of artistic, filmic and cultural texts.
Aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen eller bunden skriftlig prøve eller mundtlig eksamen.
