an other - a black feminist consideration of animal life (Hardcover)

In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers ranging from Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, Toni Morrison, and C. E. Morgan to Jane Bennett, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway, Holland decenters the human in Black feminist thought to interrogate blackness, insurgence, flesh, and femaleness. She examines MOVE’s incarnation as an animal liberation group; uses sovereignty in Morrison’s A Mercy to understand blackness, indigeneity, and the animal; analyzes Charles Burnett’s films as commentaries on the place of animals in Black life; and shows how equestrian novels address Black and animal life in ways that rehearse the practices of the slavocracy. By focusing on doing rather than being, Holland demonstrates that Black life is not solely likened to animal life; it is relational and world-forming with animal lives.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Sharon Patricia Holland
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-2009-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	1-4780-2009-1
Barcode:	9781478020097

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