Many humans do not regard animals as complex beings. Instead, they
objectify animals, relate to them as 'pets', or see them simply as
spectacles of beauty or wildness. By contrast, the southern African
writers whose work is explored in The animal gaze, including Olive
Schreiner, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Eugene N. Marais, J.M. Coetzee,
Luis Bernardo Honwana, Michiel Heyns, Marlene van Niekerk and Linda
Tucker, represents animals as richly individual subjects. The
animals – including cattle, horses, birds, lions, leopards,
baboons, dogs, cats and a whale – experience complex emotions and
have agency, intentionality and morality, as well as an ability to
recognize and fear death. When animals are acknowledged as subjects
in this way, then the animal gaze and the human response
encapsulate an interspecies communication of kinship, rather than
confirming a human sense of superiority. This volume goes beyond
Jacques Derrida's notion of the animal gaze which still has animal
as the 'absolute other', and suggests a re-conceptualising of
animals as 'anothers.' The animal gaze engages with the writings of
Jacques Derrida, J.M. Coetzee, Val Plumwood and Martha C. Nussbaum,
as it brings together Animal studies, ethics, literary studies and
African traditional thought, including shamanism, in a way that
compels the reader to think differently about nonhuman animals and
human relationship with them.
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