Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization.
Price, Jason D.
2017
PN1-PN6790
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization.
Author Price, Jason D.
ISBN 9783319567266
3319567268
331956725X
9783319567259
9783319567259
331956725X (Trade Cloth)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (286 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 9783319567259
10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6 doi
Call Number PN1-PN6790
Dewey Decimal Classification 800
Summary Annotation 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.
Note Annotation 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note BibliographyChapter 5 Desire and the Law: Creative Resistance in the Reluctant Passenger and the Heart of Redness; Critique of Animal Rights; Desire in the Reluctant Passenger; Baboons before the Law; Development in the Heart of Redness; Camagu's Desire and Qukezwa's Ecofeminism; Biopolitics in Qolorha: Indigenous Environmental Law and Indigenous Desire; Conclusion: Toward Sustainable Futures; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Coda: Transformative Encounters: Desiring Aliens and Hospitality in District 9; The Space of the Camp and the Law; Interspecies Sexuality; Hospitality as Desire.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics text file
PDF
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
Available in Other Form Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization.
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Sameness and Difference in the "New" South Africa-Desire and Nonhuman Resistance; The South African Colonial Period; Apartheid, the Struggle, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ; Biopolitics and Desire in South African Literature; Animal Studies, Ecofeminism, and a Critique of Animal Rights; Postcolonial Ecocriticism; On Deleuze and Postcolonialism; A Different Politics: Postcolonial Critiques of Resistance and Deleuze; Politics as Affect and "Indigenous Cosmopolitics."

Different Desires: Indigenous Desire, Anti-Oedipus, and Animal AffectChapter Summaries; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: The Return of the Same in Disgrace and ; Disgrace, Desire, and National Space; "The Rights of Desire": Law and Desire in Disgrace; Enrichment Discourse and "Eating the Other"; "Too Many": Biopolitics and Desire; Approaching a "Minor" Opera; National Space in the Devil's Chimney; The Confined Spaces of the Karoo; Nomad Science, Art, and Animal Resistance; Conclusion: The Smooth Spaces of the Eastern and Western Capes; Bibliography.

Chapter 3 Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale CallerZoosexuality and Postcolonial Ecocriticism; Postcolonial Desire and Subjectivity; Blocking Sexual Desire: The Bible and Oedipus; Postanthropomorphic Sexuality; Conclusion: Desire, Destruction, and the Potential of Becoming-Music; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Consuming the Other and the Ethics of "Eating": Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and the Mother of All Eating; Zoosexuality and SpeciesRace Logic in Tanuki Ichiban; "Eating the Other"; Biopolitics: Disposable Bodies in Late Capitalism; The Mother of All Eating.

Eating the AliensBecoming-Alien and a Line of Flight; Conclusion: Desiring Sustainable Communities; Bibliography; Index.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export