Postcolonial Animalities [electronic resource].
Sinha, Suvadip.| Call Number | 325.3 |
| Author | Sinha, Suvadip. |
| Title | Postcolonial Animalities |
| Publication | New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (243 p.). |
| Series | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Ser. |
| Notes | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Postcolonial Animalities; SECTION I: Theoretical Considerations on Postcolonial Animalities; 2 "A Strangeness beyond Reckoning": The Animal as Surplus in Postcolonial Literature; 3 Ethics and Politics of Postcolonial Animalities; SECTION II: Dogs; 4 The Turk That Therefore I Follow; 5 Who Let the Mad Dogs Out? Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon; 6 Pariah Dogs-Precarious Cohabitation; SECTION III: Megafauna 7 No Place for Waltzing Matilda: Uncanny Australian Swamps and Crocodiles in Rogue, Black Water, and Dark Age8 Plotting the Elephant Graveyard: Anthropomorphism and Interspecies Conflict in Tania James's The Tusk That Did the Damage; SECTION IV: Human-Animal Interzones; 9 Beyond Bare Life: Revitalizing the Animal in Dany Laferrière's American Autobiography; 10 Breaking Down Borders: Animal Bodies in Lauren Beukes's Moxyland and Zoo City; 11 Wilder Powers: Magical Animality in Tales of War and Terror; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary | Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is to decolonize existing conceptualizations of the human-animal relationship, and to consider the material representation of animals within the realm of colonial and postcolonial cultural production from the perspective of ethical alterity and alternative narratives of anticolonial and postcolonial politics. The volume also explores entanglements of race and species in colonial and neocolonial frameworks without transforming such inquiries into a zero-sum game that privileges one category over another. The essays in the volume, focusing on multiple geographical locations ranging from South Asia, Southeast Asia, post-Ottoman Turkey, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa and Palestine/Israel, historicizes and understands multispecies, interspecies and transspecies encounters, affiliations and connections in and through their localized dimensions, and studies human-animal encounters in their varied and complex affective relationalities. Through such inquiries, the volume considers how modes of representing animals, including located forms of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, help us think-with and be-with different animals. |
| Added Author | Baishya, Amit R. |
| Subject | Postcolonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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| Summary | Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is to decolonize existing conceptualizations of the human-animal relationship, and to consider the material representation of animals within the realm of colonial and postcolonial cultural production from the perspective of ethical alterity and alternative narratives of anticolonial and postcolonial politics. The volume also explores entanglements of race and species in colonial and neocolonial frameworks without transforming such inquiries into a zero-sum game that privileges one category over another. The essays in the volume, focusing on multiple geographical locations ranging from South Asia, Southeast Asia, post-Ottoman Turkey, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa and Palestine/Israel, historicizes and understands multispecies, interspecies and transspecies encounters, affiliations and connections in and through their localized dimensions, and studies human-animal encounters in their varied and complex affective relationalities. Through such inquiries, the volume considers how modes of representing animals, including located forms of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, help us think-with and be-with different animals. |
| Notes | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Postcolonial Animalities; SECTION I: Theoretical Considerations on Postcolonial Animalities; 2 "A Strangeness beyond Reckoning": The Animal as Surplus in Postcolonial Literature; 3 Ethics and Politics of Postcolonial Animalities; SECTION II: Dogs; 4 The Turk That Therefore I Follow; 5 Who Let the Mad Dogs Out? Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon; 6 Pariah Dogs-Precarious Cohabitation; SECTION III: Megafauna 7 No Place for Waltzing Matilda: Uncanny Australian Swamps and Crocodiles in Rogue, Black Water, and Dark Age8 Plotting the Elephant Graveyard: Anthropomorphism and Interspecies Conflict in Tania James's The Tusk That Did the Damage; SECTION IV: Human-Animal Interzones; 9 Beyond Bare Life: Revitalizing the Animal in Dany Laferrière's American Autobiography; 10 Breaking Down Borders: Animal Bodies in Lauren Beukes's Moxyland and Zoo City; 11 Wilder Powers: Magical Animality in Tales of War and Terror; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Subject | Postcolonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Multimedia |