INTRO
The cannibals have always been the others. This is a common and widespread prejudice throughout the world. It is a way of attributing to the stranger the negative mark of an extreme otherness that allows us to delimit the borders of our own identity. The term cannibal was born linked to the conquest of America, the cultural confrontation, the imperial war and plunder. For centuries, Europe used it as an instrument of legitimization of imperialism and colonialism. However, during the last decades of the last century, with global tourism and the devaluation of the exotic, we witnessed the displacement of the figure of the cannibal from the edges of our world to the center, from our outer space to our inner space.
The myth survives strongly, but now it is explicitly revealed as a story that no longer speaks about them, but about us. This shift is evident both in art and media culture and in the academic field, where the cannibal has become a basic category for social sciences from postcolonial, racial or gender perspectives. It is no longer an excess attributable to others, but to us as voracious consumers and to our cultural imagination that invents it as a ghost. This book addresses the disturbing and sinister figure of the wild devourer, that stranger who lives among us, from a transdisciplinary perspective located between the history and theory of art, anthropology, criticism and cultural history, with examples taken from the literary field, the art, cinema, architecture, urban planning, media culture and political activism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introducción. Esos extraños salvajes
José Díaz Cuyás
Fetiches, fantasmas y caníbales: tres vengadores premodernos
Fernando Estévez González
Los orígenes del salvajismo político
Dean MacCannell
Sobre la inexplicable persistencia de los extraños
Juliet Flower MacCannell
Canibalismo tácito en la obra de Raymond Roussel (algo sobre arte y literatura)
Julián Díaz Sánchez
Filmar lo peor: Las Hurdes y las experiencias de lo extremo en España
Vicente J. Benet
Arte de acción, comunión carnal y seducción turística: la comuna de Otto Muehl en Canarias
Ralph Kistler
Arte, consumo y transgresión caníbal: a propósito de Yves Klein, Tennessee Williams y el cine exploitation
José Díaz Cuyás
Banal caníbal, Calibán cabal
Esteban Pujals Gesalí
Comer con los ojos: el caníbal en la edad del turismo
Juan Pablo Wert Ortega
La marea caníbal: gastropolítica o la lógica cultural de la temporalidad de crisis en el Estado español (2008-2014)
Germán Labrador Méndez
Serie arte y turismo
En colaboración con Turicom y vinculado al Proyecto PGC2018-093422-B-I00. Con el apoyo de TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
Diseño y maquetación: jaume marco – estudi
Idioma: Español
ISBN: 978-84-946891-7-8
Tamaño: 21×14,8cm
Páginas: 340
Precio: 18 euros
