Preface: Bites Here and There

1. ‘I’ll play the cook’: Titus Andronicus and the Cannibalism of Revenge from Seneca to Julie Taymor’s Titus


Romola Nuttall


2. Cannibalism and Femininity: From the Old English Judith to Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark


Roberta Marangi


3. ‘You eat or you die’: Sixth Extinction Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction


Nora Castle

Part II The Anthropophagus Complex

Introduction ? The Anthropophagus Complex: Despotic and Overbearing Ogre Figures in Ancient and Medieval Texts and in Psychoanalysis

Giulia Champion


4. Cannibalism and the Ancient Novel Revisited


Edmund P. Cueva


5. The Medieval Roots of Anthropophagy: Stereotypes, Metaphors and Practices


Angelica Aurora Montanari


6. Iconology and Metaphors in Viennese Actionism: Critical Actions against a Cannibalistic Society


Nicola Viviani


7. ‘We’ve both been his brides’: NBC’s Hannibal, Cannibalism and Psychological Violence in Platonic Relationships


Shehzad Raj

Part III Not Just Another Piece of Meat

Introduction ? Not Just Another Piece of Meat: The Sexual and Epistemological Violence of Gendered Otherness

Giulia Champion


8. Criminal Conversion and Cannibalistic Contrition in an Early Modern Spanish Broadsheet Ballad


Stacey L. Parker Aronson


9. Constructing Transgression: Cannibalism, Witchcraft and Womanhood in Lo Stregozzo


Laura Scalabrella Spada


10. The Better to Eat You With: The Anthropophagy Plots of Fairy Tales


Silvia E. Storti


11. Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in order to Theorise an Unthinkability of Sexual Violence


Cecilia Cienfuegos and Ana Abril

Part IV (De)Meatifying and Digesting the Other

Introduction ? Decolonising Cannibalism from Travel Writing to Brazilian Antropofagia


12. ‘Savages are but shades of ourselves’: Central African Cannibals in Herbert Ward’s Narratives (1890-1910)


Sophie Dulucq


13. Gastronomes of the Old School: American Iterations of the Cannibal Idea


Nicholas A. B. Kahn


14. Neo-Cannibalistic Spaces: Revisiting Museum Practice through Literary Fiction


Louise Logan-Smith


15. The Ethnographic Effect or, Antropofagia, its Past and Future