Multispecies Modernity

Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77112-520-8
Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Environmental Humanities

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a uniquely Indian way of being modern is born in these spaces of disorderly multispecies living.Bringing together the fields of animal studies and postcolonial studies, Multispecies Modernity explores how these fields can complicate and enrich one another. Each chapter considers a zone of proximity between human and nonhuman beings. These spaces link animal-human relations to a politics of postcolonial identity by transgressing the logics of modernity imposed on the postcolonial nation. Disorderly multispecies living is a resistance to the hygiene of modernity and a powerful alliance between human and nonhuman subalterns. In bringing an animal studies perspective to postcolonial writing and art, this book not only offers a way to interpret these texts that does justice to their significance, but also proposes both an ethics of representation and an ethics of reading that have wider implications for the study of relationships between human and nonhuman animals in literature and in life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walther, Sundhya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Introduction: Disorderly Multispecies Living
- 2. The Wild: Tracking Tigers through the Discourse of Conservation
- Provocation 1: Sakshi Gupta
- 3. The Body: Ahimsa and the Politics of Vegetarianism
- Provocation 2: Sujatro Ghosh
- 4. The Home: Narrative Violence and Counternarrative Companionship
- Provocation 3: Jagannath Panda
- 5. The City: Denizens of Modernity in Delhi and Mumbai
- 6. The Zoo: Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Sundhya Walther is a Presidential Fellow in English at the University of Manchester. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Palgrave Handbook of Animals in Literature. A Canadian transplant, she lives with her multispecies family in Lancaster, UK.