Overview
- Offers a multidisciplinary argument for scholars interested in literary studies, film studies, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies
- Examines a wealth of source material including works by J.M. Coetzee, Anne Landsman, and Zakes Mda
- Proposes a new understanding of animal studies by arguing for desire's positive qualities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals’ different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jason D. Price is a postdoctoral fellow of African and Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has previously published articles on animals in film and animals and subjectivity in postcolonial literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animals and Desire in South African Fiction
Book Subtitle: Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
Authors: Jason D. Price
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56725-9Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85985-9Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56726-6Published: 15 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Literature, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Critical Theory