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- Title
CANNIBAL -or- The Role of Non-Fiction in Fiction.
- Authors
GRADY, WAYNE
- Abstract
The article explores the role of nonfiction and cannibalism in the literary history of fiction. The author reflects on the narrator and his aversion to cannibalism in the novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allen Poe. with a focus on the way the text blurs the line between fictional and nonfictional accounts. A comparison is made between Poe's work and the nonfiction book "The Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders" published in 1827, wherein accounts are given of cannibalistic activity.
- Subjects
CANNIBALISM in literature; POE, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; NARRATIVE of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The (Book : Poe); NARRATIVE of the Shipwreck &; Sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders, The (Book); NONFICTION; LITERARY criticism; FICTION; CANNIBALS
- Publication
Queen's Quarterly, 2011, Vol 118, Issue 3, p336
- ISSN
0033-6041
- Publication type
Article