Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant - Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva's Theory of Abjection

West examines five twentieth-century literary texts, ranging from the modernist to the postmodern in tenor--Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and "Falk"), Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves, Jeanette Winterson's "The Knave of Coins", and Emma Tennant's "P...

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Published in:Genus : gender in modern culture 2007-01, Vol.9, p.235
Main Author: West, Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Cannibalism
Kristeva, Julia (1941- )
Literary criticism
Theory
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Summary:West examines five twentieth-century literary texts, ranging from the modernist to the postmodern in tenor--Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and "Falk"), Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves, Jeanette Winterson's "The Knave of Coins", and Emma Tennant's "Philomela"-- to place cannibalism within the field of Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection --and to question some of the basic assumptions upon which her theory is based.
ISSN:1568-1602