Boggs Animalia Americana

Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-53194-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law

From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boggs, Colleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib)
2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower (Frederick Douglass)
3. Animals and the Letter of the Law (Edgar Allan Poe)
4. Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity (Emily Dickinson)
5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Glenney Boggs is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation, 1773–1892.