{"product_id":"cannibal-democracy-zita-nunes-9780816648412","title":"Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eZita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor's circulation through the work of writers such as Mário de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the black press, as well as work by visual artists including Magdalena Campos-Pons and Keith Piper, and reveals how exclusion-understood in terms of what is left out-can be fruitfully understood in terms of what is left over from a process of unification or incorporation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNunes shows that while this remainder can be deferred into the future-lurking as a threat to the desired stability of the present-the residue haunts discourses of national unity, undermining the ideologies of democracy that claim to resolve issues of race.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZita Nunes is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zita Nunes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816648417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816648412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/03\/2008 pg. 22","brand":"Zita Nunes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47473936564479,"sku":"9780816648412","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa5e1784-c6f0-4af8-a24a-d8f12c9ec4af.jpg?v=1762313895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cannibal-democracy-zita-nunes-9780816648412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}