From Man-Eaters to Spam-Eaters: Literary Tourism and the Discourse of Cannibalism from Herman Melville to Paul Theroux

Lyons, Paul

doi:10.1353/arq.1995.0016

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“…111 Paul Lyon summarises this cannibal anxiety when he states that 'if a cannibal cannot be distinguished from a non-cannibal, the whole chain by which "civilized" people distinguish themselves from the "non-civilized" comes apart' . 112 The colonial concern with the figure of the cannibal also represented a colonial and white fear of being incorporated by the racial other, both figuratively and literally. A fear, in other words, that the 'exceptional civilization' of whiteness could be 'devoured' by the 'savage' other.…”

Section: The Politics Of Edibility and The (Un)making Of Humannessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity

Brito

2024

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Europe’s (post-)colonial borders have been recently marked by a profusion of cases of violence against racialised migrants with the use of police dogs, following a continual process of integration of canines into the border apparatus of violence. Engaging simultaneously with the recent post-colonial literature on border and migration security and the incipient domain of animal studies, this article investigates the colonial and racial origins and effects of this phenomenon. Contextualising the weaponisation of dogs at Europe’s borders today within a much longer history of racial violence, the article shows how canines have been systematically deployed by colonial and white supremacist powers against racialised bodies as tools to enact and secure racial order. Attentive to the ways in which modern humanness has been predicated upon its removal from the food chain, the article argues that the use of police dogs at Europe’s borders operates by reinforcing the non- or less-than-human status of racialised migrants by marking them as ‘animal-like’ and ‘edible’ bodies. Conceptualising this method as ‘the politics of edibility’, the article then shows how the exposure of migrants to the threat of ‘dog bites’ functions as a form of reinforcing racial hierarchies in a Europe traversed by racial anxieties.

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Section: The Politics Of Edibility and The (Un)making Of Humannessmentioning

confidence: 99%