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Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the
ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman
animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing
theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings,
Entangled Fictions argues that the corpus is limited
epistemologically and politically when it comes to their
examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the
political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses
several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions
from autobiographical to spectra in effort to introduce readers to
fictional worlds marked by human-nonhuman fluidity and
trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before
the telos of human extinction became either a global or local
concern.
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.
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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