The Coloniality of Perception: The Other as a Cannibal
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Date
2013
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Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
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Abstract
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.
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Dofinansowanie: Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Publikacja sfinansowana ze środków Urzędu Miejskiego w Gnieźnie
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the Other, cannibalism, cannibal, Cannibalia, difference, anthropophagy, the New World, cartography, cultural trope
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Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, 7/2013, s. 7-31
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978-83-7654-166-2