Price Animals and Desire in South African Fiction

Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-56726-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals’ different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Jason D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sameness and Difference in the “New” South Africa: Desire and Nonhuman Resistance.- Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: the Return of the Same in
Disgrace
and
The Devil’s Chimney.- 
Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in
The Whale Caller.- 
Consuming the Other and the Ethics of “Eating:” Dominant Desire in
Tanuki Ichiban
and
The Mother of All Eating
.- Desire and the Law: Creative Resistance in
The Reluctant Passenger
and
The Heart of Redness.- 
Transformative Encounters: Desiring Aliens & Hospitality in
District 9.

Über Autor(innen)

Jason D. Price
is a postdoctoral fellow of African and Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has previously published articles on animals in film and animals and subjectivity in postcolonial literature.