Open AccessHairy on the Inside: From Cannibals to Paedophiles
Author(s) -
Carolyn Daniel
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2003vol13no3art1282
Subject(s) - cannibalism , trope (literature) , colonialism , fantasy , construct (python library) , literature , art , history , aesthetics , ecology , archaeology , biology , computer science , larva , programming language
Cannibalism and its uses as a trope in colonial literature, contemporary fantasy, colonial writing, horror fiction, and fairy tales are considered. Episodes of cannibalism and metaphorical allusions to perverse forms of ingestion assume different forms and perform functions inflected by historical and cultural contexts, but they are apt to construct distinctions between self and others.