CAJ | 학술논문

食人族传说在殖民时代的英国流布很广，作家小说、史学家著作、传教士信件和航海家日志都有记载。19世纪50年代前，英国社会想像的“食人族”主要是南太平洋及加勒比岛屿的土著居民，渡海宣教的传教士是食人族故事的主要编造者。作为白色人种（基督徒）对有色人种（异教徒）的想像与言说，“食人族”是殖民话语体系中表达种族/文化差异的符号，反映了英国乃至欧洲人对海外世界既渴望又恐惧的复杂心理。本质上，“食人族”是帝国文化精英为国家海外殖民事业所炮制的一个修辞。与殖民时代向外传播的福音书一样，食人族传说的政治功能远远大于文化叙事功能。
식인족전설재식민시대적영국류포흔엄，작가소설、사학가저작、전교사신건화항해가일지도유기재。19세기50년대전，영국사회상상적“식인족”주요시남태평양급가륵비도서적토저거민，도해선교적전교사시식인족고사적주요편조자。작위백색인충（기독도）대유색인충（이교도）적상상여언설，“식인족”시식민화어체계중표체충족/문화차이적부호，반영료영국내지구주인대해외세계기갈망우공구적복잡심리。본질상，“식인족”시제국문화정영위국가해외식민사업소포제적일개수사。여식민시대향외전파적복음서일양，식인족전설적정치공능원원대우문화서사공능。
Cannibal tales were widely spread in the colonial era of the UK. They had been recorded in novels, history books and letters of missionaries and logs of navigators. Before the 1820s, the British imagination of Cannibals was mainly related to the natives in the South Pacific and the Caribbean islands, and missionaries across the sea from England were the fabricators of cannibal stories. As the imagination and narration of colored people(heretics) by white race (Christians), Cannibal is in fact a symbol, which expresses the differences of races in colonial discourse and reflects the complex psychological fear and desire of the British and even Europeans for the oversea world. In essence, cannibal is a figure of speech invented by the imperial cultural elites for the imperial overseas colonial business. Just as the spread of Gospel in the colonial era, the political function of cannibal tales has far greater influences than the narrative function of them.