Animals and Desire in South African Fiction
Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
Authors: Price, Jason
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- Proposes a new understanding of animal studies by arguing for desire's positive qualities
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Sameness and Difference in the “New” South Africa—Desire and Nonhuman Resistance
Pages 1-62
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Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: The Return of the Same in Disgrace and The Devil’s Chimney the Devil’s Chimney
Pages 63-114
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Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale Caller
Pages 115-145
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Consuming the Other and the Ethics of “Eating”: Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and the Mother of All Eating
Pages 147-179
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Desire and the Law: Creative Resistance in the Reluctant Passenger and the Heart of Redness
Pages 181-236
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Animals and Desire in South African Fiction
- Book Subtitle
- Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
- Authors
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- Jason Price
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-56726-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-56725-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85985-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 277
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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