Animalia Americana - Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity

Informationen zum Autor Colleen Glenney Boggs is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation! 1773-1892. Klappentext Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts! Coleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the centre of the making of the liberal American subject. Zusammenfassung From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth! Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America! one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. American Bestiality: Sex! Animals! and the Construction of Subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation! Abu Ghraib)2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower (Frederick Douglass)3. Animals and the Letter of the Law (Edgar Allan Poe)4. Animals! Affect! and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity (Emily Dickinson)5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography (Barbara Bush! Katharine Lee Bates)EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Boggs, Colleen Boggs, Colleen (Dartmouth College) Boggs, Colleen Glenney Boggs, Boggs Colleen Glenney
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2013
• EAN: 9780231161237
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16123-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Anima; Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals; Critical Perspectives on Anima
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, NATURE / Animal Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Earth Sciences, Structuralism and Post-structuralism