Animalia Americana : animal representations and biopolitical subjectivity /

Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Bog...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boggs, Colleen Glenney (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical perspectives on animals.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Human-animal relationships > United States.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
NATURE > Animal Rights.
American literature
Animals in literature
Human-animal relationships
Subjectivity in literature
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • American bestiality: sex, animals, and the construction of subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib)
  • Bestiality revisited: the primal scene of biopower (Frederick Douglass)
  • Animals and the letter of the law (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Animals, affect, and the formation of liberal subjectivity (Emily Dickinson)
  • Rethinking liberal subjectivity: the biopolitics of animal autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates).

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