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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.
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