Animals and Desire in South African Fiction : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization.
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Sameness and Difference in the "New" South Africa-Desire and Nonhuman Resistance; The South African Colonial Period; Apartheid, the Struggle, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ; Biopolitics and Desire in South African Literature; Animal Studies, Ecofeminism, and a Critique of Animal Rights; Postcolonial Ecocriticism; On Deleuze and Postcolonialism; A Different Politics: Postcolonial Critiques of Resistance and Deleuze; Politics as Affect and "Indigenous Cosmopolitics."
- Different Desires: Indigenous Desire, Anti-Oedipus, and Animal AffectChapter Summaries; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: The Return of the Same in Disgrace and ; Disgrace, Desire, and National Space; "The Rights of Desire": Law and Desire in Disgrace; Enrichment Discourse and "Eating the Other"; "Too Many": Biopolitics and Desire; Approaching a "Minor" Opera; National Space in the Devil's Chimney; The Confined Spaces of the Karoo; Nomad Science, Art, and Animal Resistance; Conclusion: The Smooth Spaces of the Eastern and Western Capes; Bibliography.
- Chapter 3 Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale CallerZoosexuality and Postcolonial Ecocriticism; Postcolonial Desire and Subjectivity; Blocking Sexual Desire: The Bible and Oedipus; Postanthropomorphic Sexuality; Conclusion: Desire, Destruction, and the Potential of Becoming-Music; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Consuming the Other and the Ethics of "Eating": Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and the Mother of All Eating; Zoosexuality and SpeciesRace Logic in Tanuki Ichiban; "Eating the Other"; Biopolitics: Disposable Bodies in Late Capitalism; The Mother of All Eating.
- Eating the AliensBecoming-Alien and a Line of Flight; Conclusion: Desiring Sustainable Communities; Bibliography; Index.