In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals "write"? How does
their "writing" mark our livesour past, present, and future?
Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative
flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces
how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges, gold, and yeast mark the
stories of those animals we call "human." Bringing together often
separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory,
and biopolitics, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast crafts scripts for
literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come
into being through our relations to other animal, plant, fungal,
microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. The book opens and
closes in the company of a Shakespearean character talking through
his painful encounter with the skin of a lamb (in the form of
parchment). This encounter stages a visceral awareness of what
Julian Yates names a "multispecies impression," the way all acts of
writing are saturated with the "writing" of other beings. Yates
then develops a multimodal reading strategy that traces a series of
anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with
sheep (keyed to the story of biopolitics), oranges (keyed to
economy), and yeast (keyed to the notion of foundation or
infrastructure). Working with an array of materials (published and
archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to
postmodern), the book allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate
their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is
a methodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in
the twenty-first century.
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