Cannibal Democracy by Zita Nunes

Cannibal Democracy by Zita Nunes

Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue.   Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor’s circulation through the work of writers such as Mário de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the black press, as well as work by visual artists including Magdalena Campos-Pons and Keith Piper, and reveals how exclusion-understood in terms of what is left out-can be fruitfully understood in terms of what is left over from a process of unification or incorporation.   Nunes shows that while this remainder can be deferred into the future-lurking as a threat to the desired stability of the present-the residue haunts discourses of national unity, undermining the ideologies of democracy that claim to resolve issues of race.   Zita Nunes is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Gwen Bergner is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University and author of Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis.

Zita Nunes is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland and author of Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas.

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ISBN 13	9780816648412
ISBN 10	0816648417
Titel	Cannibal Democracy
Autor	Zita Nunes
Serie	Critical American Studies
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-08-29
Seitenanzahl	240
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