Animalia Americana : : Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity /

Animalia Americana : : Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity / / Colleen Boggs.

Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Boggs, Colleen,
MitwirkendeR:
Bates, Katharine Lee,
Bush, Barbara,
Dickinson, Emily,
Douglass, Frederick,
Ghraib, Abu,
Poe, Edgar Allan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; ‹B›7 illus.‹/B›
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AMERICAN BESTIALITY
  • 2. BESTIALITY REVISITED
  • 3. ANIMALS AND THE LETTER OF THE LAW
  • 4. ANIMALS, AFFECT, AND THE FORMATION OF LIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY
  • 5. RETHINKING LIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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