i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
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i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
Cannibalism can portray an intimate and uncomfortable look at love while illustrating the idea of ‘the other’ to tell stories about marginalised groups of people.
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
reclaiming the body
i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
femininity is centred in consumption,
cannibalism is used as a tool to reclaim it
There is the idea of absorbing or incorporating within.
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
the idea of owning someone so completely, and they’ll always be with you
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
in order to try and protect them, she eats them to return them to the safety of her body (a character kills his enemy’s sons, bakes them into a pie, feeds it to the mother)
As Summers notes, "horror belongs to women because we understand, on a gut-punch level, how it feels to be viewed as a monster [...] as well as how it feels to be reduced to body parts".3
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permanency of the two becoming one
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
something promised. irreversible. with eating and consumption what are you allowing yourself to consume?
Incorrect eating is tied in with an incorrect expression of sexuality.
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
What is a greater expression of love than eating someone else or wanting to consume and have that person in a way that no one else can have?
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
notes on cannibalism
(dr Nicola welsh burke)
Dr. Nicola Welsh Burke says, "What is a greater expression of love than eating someone else or wanting to consume and have that person in a way that no one else can have?"4 Dr. Burke explores the intersection of food, eating, and sexuality