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- Title
"Are we cannibals, let me ask? Or are we faithful friends?": Food, Interspecies Cannibalism, and the Limits of Utopia in L. Frank Baum's Oz Books.
- Authors
Pugh, Tison
- Abstract
The article discusses the element of cannibalism and how L. Frank Baum, the author of the Oz series, implied the use of food and cooking to provide a utopian theme to the novels. According to the article, the OZ novels pertain to food and cooking as the factors that resemble the arguments of civilization in a fairy land. In addition, it states that cannibalism in the book separates cultural order between the human and inhuman behavior.
- Subjects
CANNIBALISM; OZ book series; BAUM, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919; FOOD; COOKING
- Publication
Lion & the Unicorn, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 3, p324
- ISSN
0147-2593
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/uni.0.0406