Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R.
Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces
between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals
in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection
critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the
co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of
animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is to
decolonize existing conceptualizations of the human-animal
relationship, and to consider the material representation of
animals within the realm of colonial and postcolonial cultural
production from the perspective of ethical alterity and alternative
narratives of anticolonial and postcolonial politics. The volume
also explores entanglements of race and species in colonial and
neocolonial frameworks without transforming such inquiries into a
zero-sum game that privileges one category over another. The essays
in the volume, focusing on multiple geographical locations ranging
from South Asia, Southeast Asia, post-Ottoman Turkey, the
Caribbean, Australia, South Africa and Palestine/Israel,
historicizes and understands multispecies, interspecies and
transspecies encounters, affiliations and connections in and
through their localized dimensions, and studies human-animal
encounters in their varied and complex affective relationalities.
Through such inquiries, the volume considers how modes of
representing animals, including located forms of anthropomorphism
and zoomorphism, help us think-with and be-with different animals.
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