Multispecies Modernity - Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover)

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a uniquely Indian way of being modern is born in these spaces of disorderly multispecies living.Bringing together the fields of animal studies and postcolonial studies, Multispecies Modernity explores how these fields can complicate and enrich one another. Each chapter considers a zone of proximity between human and nonhuman beings. These spaces link animal-human relations to a politics of postcolonial identity by transgressing the logics of modernity imposed on the postcolonial nation. Disorderly multispecies living is a resistance to the hygiene of modernity and a powerful alliance between human and nonhuman subalterns. In bringing an animal studies perspective to postcolonial writing and art, this book not only offers a way to interpret these texts that does justice to their significance, but also proposes both an ethics of representation and an ethics of reading that have wider implications for the study of relationships between human and nonhuman animals in literature and in life.

General

Imprint:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Environmental Humanities
Release date:	June 2021
Authors:	Sundhya Walther
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-1-77112-520-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General Promotions
LSN:	1-77112-520-9
Barcode:	9781771125208

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