Imperial beast fables : animals, cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire / Kaori Nagai.
Nagai, Kaori, author.
2020
PN980 .N34 2020
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Title Imperial beast fables : animals, cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire / Kaori Nagai.
Author Nagai, Kaori, author.
ISBN 9783030514938 (electronic book)
3030514935 (electronic book)
3030514927
9783030514921
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-51
Call Number PN980 .N34 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 398.24/509
Summary This book coins the term 'imperial beast fable to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 20, 2020).
Series Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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Introduction: Rats in the Box
Chapter 1: Winged Tales: The Advent of the Imperial Beast Fable
Chapter 2: 'Once Upon a Time When Animals Spoke: Theories of the Beast Fable
Chapter 3: Into the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books
Chapter 4: Kangaroo Notebook: Abes Metatherian Journey
Chapter 5: Animal Alphabets: Chestertons Dog, Brownings Rats, Lears Blue Baboon
Chapter 6: Fabling Cosmopolitanism: The Ark Esperanto.

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