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Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization /

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...

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Main Authors: Price, Jason D
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Subjects:
Literature
Literature, Modern > 20th century
Literature, Modern > 21st century
African literature
Critical theory
Contemporary Literature
Postcolonial/World Literature
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6
Summary: 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
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIII,277pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319567266
Index Number: PL8009
CLC: I400.74
Contents: 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.

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