Animals and Desire in South African Fiction - Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Release date:	May 2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jason D Price
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-85985-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	3-319-85985-4
Barcode:	9783319859859

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