| 期刊全稱 | Animals and Desire in South African Fiction | | 期刊簡(jiǎn)稱 | Biopolitics and the | | 影響因子2023 | Jason D. Price | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/158/157706/157706.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | 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 work | | 學(xué)科分類(lèi) | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature | | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | | 影響因子 | .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.. | | Pindex | Book 2017 |
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