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

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From: Journal of World History
Date: 20010322
Author:FERNANDEZ, RAMONA

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne. By FRANK LESTRINGANT. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. vi + 247. $38.00 (cloth).

At the moment, "Books in Print" lists forty-six titles including the word "cannibal." We might justifiably ask, why this rush of books deploying the sign of the cannibal at the beginning of the millennium? In Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne, Frank Lestringant asserts that the debate about cannibalism commences as colonialism begins to ...

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