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OverviewMultispecies 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sundhya WaltherPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781771125208ISBN 10: 1771125209 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 30 July 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Disorderly Multispecies Living 2. The Wild: Tracking Tigers through the Discourse of Conservation Provocation 1: Sakshi Gupta 3. The Body: Ahimsa and the Politics of Vegetarianism Provocation 2: Sujatro Ghosh 4. The Home: Narrative Violence and Counternarrative Companionship Provocation 3: Jagannath Panda 5. The City: Denizens of Modernity in Delhi and Mumbai 6. The Zoo: PostscriptReviewsWeaving a series of narrative interpretations of physical and conceptual zones of proximity, Sundhya Walther reads towards alliances that have been otherwise shunned and effaced by the structures and strictures of (postcolonial) modernity. Through readings of fiction, memoir, journalism, and art, Multispecies Modernity takes us through scenes of contaminating touch that offer us the promise of more ethical forms of living against the strangleholds of modernity. This book will be of interest to a readership that extends across the broad fields of postcolonial studies, animal studies, and literary studies. It is a beautifully written work with consistently clear and coherent prose, and always compelling inroads into texts that readers might not be already familiar with. - Julietta Singh, author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Author InformationSundhya Walther is a Presidential Fellow in English at the University of Manchester. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Palgrave Handbook of Animals in Literature. A Canadian transplant, she lives with her multispecies family in Lancaster, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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