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The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne.(Review)

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From: Renaissance Quarterly
Date: 19981222
Author:Kicza, John E.

Frank Lestringant. Trans. Rosemary Morris. (The New Historicism, 37). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. vii + 247 pp. $38. ISBN 0-520-20240-6.

Frank Lestringant, a French literary scholar who has published widely on European views of the non-Western world and its peoples in the Renaissance, here examines European perceptions of cannibals from the emergence of the designation with the discovery of the Americas through the end of the nineteenth century. Lestringant limits himself largely to the views of notable French writers, plus the artist ...

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