Postcolonial Animalities

ISBN-13: 9781032240473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Suvadip Sinha; Amit Baishya

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. "Introduction: Postcolonial Animalities"—Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya

Section I: Theoretical Considerations on Postcolonial Animalities

2. "‘A Strangeness beyond Reckoning’: The Animal as Surplus in Postcolonial Literature"—Gautam Basu Thakur
3. "Ethics and Politics of Postcolonial Animalities"—Amit R. Baishya

Section II: Dogs

4. "The Turk that therefore I Follow"—Efe Khayyat
5. "Who Let the Mad Dogs Out?: Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon"—Omri Grinberg and Yiftach Ashkenazi
6. "Pariah Dogs, Precarious Cohabitation"—Suvadip Sinha

Section III: Megafauna

7. "No Place for Waltzing Matilda: Uncanny Australian Swamps and Crocodiles in Rogue, Black Water, and Dark Age"—Isaac Rooks
8. "Plotting the Elephant Graveyard: Anthropomorphism and Interspecies Conflict in Tania James’ The Tusk that did the Damage"—Jason Sandhar

Section IV: Human-Animal Interzones

9. "Beyond Bare Life: Revitalizing the Animal in Dany Laferrière’s American Autobiography"—Rebecca Krasner
10. "Breaking Down Borders: Animal Bodies in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland and Zoo City"—Madeleine Wilson
11. "Wilder Powers: Magical Animality in Tales of War and Terror"—Jean M. Langford.

O autorze

Amit R. Baishya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor (with Yasmin Saikia) of a volume titled Northeast India: A Place of Relations (CUP, 2017). His essays have been published in Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Review and several edited collections.

Suvadip Sinha is an Assistant Professor of South Asian literature and culture at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota. He is currently finishing a monograph on inanimate objects in Indian cinema.