Dehumanizing Accusations and Empowering Rebuttals:
Exploring Transmedia Cannibalism Tales
Lexington Books Series: Transmedia Monsters and Villains
Publishing Proposal under review
Description:
Chapter 1:
Beowulf, Just Who Are You Calling a Beast?: Grendel (1971) & The Mere Wife (2018) Counter-Cannibalize Western Identities
Chapter 2:
Realizing Too Late They Don’t Think You’re a God: Political Satire in dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman? (1971)
Chapter 3:
Bathing in Infant Blood, Flying with the Devil: Celebrating Female Rebels in The VVitch (2015)
Chapter 4:
Black Bodies Consumed as White Confections: From Olaudah Equiano’s Memoirs (1789) to Kara Walker’s Sugar Baby Statues (2014)
Chapter 5:
Food as Nauseating, Food as Healing: Cannibalism, Hunger, and Identity in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Chapter 6:
Politicized Tales of Cannibalism Evade Censorship: Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine (1992) and Yu Hua’s ‘Classical Love’ (1996)
Chapter 7:
A Vampire Vigilante Marauds the Moonlight: Ecofeminism in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Chapter 8:
Wendigo Religious Spirits Battle Wolverine, the Hulk, and Video Game Teens?: Indigenous Artists Reclaim Wendigo Icons in Graphic Novels and Video Games
Chapter 9:
Bones and All (2022) and Other Stories of Teenage Cannibalistic Angst: Queer Time Rites of Passage and Found Identity in Cannibal Dining Mates
Chapter 10:
I Don’t Like Zombies or Mushrooms: Sacrifice and Ecosocial Values in Train to Busan (2016) & The Last of Us (2023-5)
Conclusion:
Decolonize Cannibalistic Foodways: Global Political Movements Towards Ecosustainable, Nutritious Food Practices
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