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Eating Others: Symbolic and Actual Cannibalism Towards Other Human Groups in Medieval storytelling (IMC Leeds)

Eating Others: Symbolic and Actual Cannibalism Towards Other Human Groups in Medieval storytelling (IMC Leeds)

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : organisateur)

Late Call for Papers for the session

"Eating Others: Symbolic and Actual Cannibalism Towards Other Human Groups in Medieval storytelling"

Tuesday 4 July 2017 : 14.15-15.45 — IMC Leeds

​Sponsoring institution: CEMR (Université catholique de Louvain)

While medieval fiction and travel writing teem with cannibal monsters, only few texts show Western characters performing real or symbolic cannibalism on a perceived Other. However rare, this 'European' cannibalism had great emotional and conceptual power in medieval texts, where it shuffled civilisation/savagery boundaries and staged control and incorporation of otherness. This session aims to explore the topic across medieval culture and storytelling, aiming to restore the significance of the practice of the symbolism of anthropophagy as an ambiguous place of negotiation of the Other and its body.

We are presently looking for one paper to complete our 3-paper session. The communication should be approximately 20 minutes long and should be delivered preferably in English.

We welcome papers in any discipline of medieval studies, as anthropology, archaeology, history, history of art, literature.

If interested, please send the title of the proposed paper and a 5-lines abstract to the address Antonella.sciancalepore@uclouvain.be by April 20th 2017.