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Author:   Suvadip Sinha ,  Amit Baishya
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367236298

ISBN 10:   036723629
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"""Introduction: Postcolonial Animalities""—Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya Section I: Theoretical Considerations on Postcolonial Animalities ""‘A Strangeness beyond Reckoning’: The Animal as Surplus in Postcolonial Literature""—Gautam Basu Thakur ""Ethics and Politics of Postcolonial Animalities""—Amit R. Baishya Section II: Dogs ""The Turk that therefore I Follow""—Efe Khayyat ""Who Let the Mad Dogs Out?: Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon""—Omri Grinberg and Yiftach Ashkenazi ""Pariah Dogs, Precarious Cohabitation""—Suvadip Sinha Section III: Megafauna ""No Place for Waltzing Matilda: Uncanny Australian Swamps and Crocodiles in Rogue, Black Water, and Dark Age""—Isaac Rooks ""Plotting the Elephant Graveyard: Anthropomorphism and Interspecies Conflict in Tania James’ The Tusk that did the Damage""—Jason Sandhar Section IV: Human-Animal Interzones ""Beyond Bare Life: Revitalizing the Animal in Dany Laferrière’s American Autobiography""—Rebecca Krasner ""Breaking Down Borders: Animal Bodies in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland and Zoo City""—Madeleine Wilson ""Wilder Powers: Magical Animality in Tales of War and Terror""—Jean M. Langford."

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Amit R. Baishya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor (with Yasmin Saikia) of a volume titled Northeast India: A Place of Relations (CUP, 2017). His essays have been published in Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Review and several edited collections. Suvadip Sinha is an Assistant Professor of South Asian literature and culture at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota. He is currently finishing a monograph on inanimate objects in Indian cinema.

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