Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest

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• Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial rescue narratives portray the non-Western world as needing the West. (similarity 0.79)
• The cannibalism accusation served colonial conquest as a justifying trope (similarity 0.79)
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