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THE IMPERIAL FOOD CHAIN: EATING AS AN INTERFACE OF POWER IN WOMEN WRITERS' GEOGRAPHY PRIMERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Megan A. Norcia
Megan A. Norcia
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Lehigh University
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…the ancient metaphor of the lean and the fat, the eaters and the eaten, still haunts the frame of political discourse.

—Frank Lestringant, Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Space–my space–is not the context of which I constitute the textuality: instead, it is first of all my body, and then it is my body's counterpart or “other,” its mirror-image or shadow: it is the shifting intersection between that which touches, penetrates, threatens or begets my body on the one hand, all other bodies on the other.

—Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN TAXONOMIES
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 253 - 268
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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