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Postcolonial Animalities book cover

1st Edition

Postcolonial Animalities

By Suvadip Sinha, Amit Baishya Copyright 2020
242 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality.... Read more
  1. "Introduction: Postcolonial Animalities"—Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya

    2. 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

    4. 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

    7. 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

    9. 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.

Biography

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.

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