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In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet...

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Taming Cannibals
• Subtitle: Race and the Victorians
• Author: Patrick Brantlinger
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780801450198
• ISBN: 0801450195
• ID: 04706831
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 532 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 163 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. September 2011

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