Humanimal
Subtitle: a project for future children
By: Bhanu Kapil
Publisher: Kelsey Street Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780932716705
Subjects: Feral children in literature
Description: "In this new prose document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate these orphans--through language instruction and forcible correction of supinated limbs--Humanimal functions as a healing mutation for three bodies and a companion poiesis for future physiologies. Through wolfgirls Kamala and Amala, there is a grafting: what scars down into the feral opens out also into the fierce, into a remembrance of Kapil's father. The humanimal text becomes one in which personal and postcolonial histories cross a wilderness to form supported metabiology" -- From the publisher.