Animals and Desire in South African Fiction
Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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
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Jason D. Price
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South African Fiction Animals Biopolitics Ethics Politics of Affect