Abstract
Studies of the representation of cannibalism have noted that the discourse on that practice that emerged in the sixteenth century operated as a differencing mechanism, a counterpoint to ideas about the ideal and individuated Christian subject of early modern Europe. But how were these associations and differences articulated within visual culture? This essay examines Jan Van der Straet's Amerigo Vespucci Rediscovers America and other visual images that present cannibalism as an attribute and/or practice of the inhabitants of the Americas. It identifies the strategies of visual rhetoric through which that association operated in the construction and maintenance of relationships of colonial power and subordination in the early modern Atlantic world.
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