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The Animal Question in Deconstruction (Paperback)
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The Animal Question in Deconstruction (Paperback)
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This explores the political and poetic understanding of the
deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate
to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of
ourselves. This textbook reveals how thinkers on deconstruction,
including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous and Nicholas Royle, have
consistently addressed questions about animality. Cixous questions
human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the
predation of a domestic cat. Kelly Oliver explores Derrida's
analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the
autopsy of an elephant. Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable
impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as
the traces of a text. Throughout this collection authors explore
the politics, and the poetics, of a less human-centred world. They
demonstrate that even when this world is viewed through the prism
of fields such as literature, autobiography and philosophy, it
always shows traces of other animals. It expands the current debate
on the 'animal question' through new essays by established authors,
such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically
examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and Royle. It
includes the first English translation of 'Un Refugie' by Helene
Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and
other animals is similar to but distinct from that of Derrida. It
republishes Nicholas Royle's ground-breaking essay 'Mole'.
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