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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)
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)
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?
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
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)
dehumanise people of colour
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
cannibalism as an act to signal the other
(the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within u.s. slave culture by Vincent Woodward)
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
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)
part of becoming an artist is learning to create without applause