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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Disorderly Multispecies Living -- The Wild: Tracking Tigers through the Discourse of Conservation -- The Body: Ahimsa and the Politics of Vegetarianism -- The Home: Narrative Violence and Counternarrative Companionship -- The City: Denizens of Modernity in Delhi and Mumbai -- The Zoo: Postscript. |
| Summary |
"Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a uniquely Indian way of being modern is born in these spaces of disorderly multispecies living. Bringing together the fields of animal studies and postcolonial studies, Multispecies Modernity explores how these fields can complicate and enrich one another. Each chapter considers a zone of proximity between human and nonhuman beings. These spaces link animal-human relations to a politics of postcolonial identity by transgressing the logics of modernity imposed on the postcolonial nation. Disorderly multispecies living is a resistance to the hygiene of modernity and a powerful alliance between human and nonhuman subalterns. In bringing an animal studies perspective to postcolonial writing and art, this book not only offers a way to interpret these texts that does justice to their significance, but also proposes both an ethics of representation and an ethics of reading that have wider implications for the study of relationships between human and nonhuman animals in literature and in life."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Indic literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships -- India.
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Animals in literature.
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Postcolonialism -- India.
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Animals in literature |
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Human-animal relationships |
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Human-animal relationships in literature |
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Indic literature (English) |
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Postcolonialism |
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India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Animals |
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Indic Literature |
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Nature |
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Literary Criticism |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walther, Sundhya, 1980- Multispecies modernity. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021 1771125209 9781771125208 (OCoLC)1197557744 |
| ISBN |
1771125225 (EPUB) |
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9781771125239 ( electronic book) |
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1771125233 (electronic book) |
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9781771125222 (electronic bk.) |
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