| 期刊全称 | Animals and Desire in South African Fiction | | 期刊简称 | Biopolitics and the | | 影响因子2023 | Jason D. Price | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | 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 | | 学科分类 | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .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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