Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, 2013/7

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The Coloniality of Perception: The Other as a Cannibal
(Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, 2013) Kubiaczyk, Filip
The article addresses the problem of the coloniality of perception, or visual-semantic manipulation of racial context which accompanied the development of the modern/ colonial capitalism. In this regard, I demonstrate that the gure of cannibal as a cultural trope played a key role in the symbolic appropriation of the New World by the Europeans, which paved the way for its military, political and economic conquest. By drawing on the source accounts, I show how the cannibal trope changed its geographical and semantic range, arranging the colonial discourse on the Other.