Animalia Americana
Subtitle: animal representations and biopolitical subjectivity
By: Colleen Glenney Boggs
Series: Critical perspectives on animals: theory, culture, science and law
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780231161220; 9780231161237; 9780231531948
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Animals in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Human-animal relationships
Description: Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Coleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the centre of the making of the liberal American subject.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American bestiality: sex, animals, and the construction of subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib); title: Bestiality revisited: the primal scene of biopower (Frederick Douglass); title: Animals and the letter of the law (Edgar Allan Poe); title: Animals, affect, and the formation of liberal subjectivity (Emily Dickinson); title: Rethinking liberal subjectivity: the biopolitics of animal autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates).