Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
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Abstract
This book puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject and argues that animals are critical to the ways in which Americans enact their humanity and regulate subjects in the biopolitical state. It concentrates on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson. It argues that biopower, or a politics that extends its reach to life, thrives on the strategic ambivalence between who is considered human and what is judged as animal. It contends that biopower generates a space of indeterminacy in which animal representations intervene to define and challenge the parameters of subjectivity and explains that the renegotiation of the species line produces a tension that is never fully regulated. It highlights how, as both figures of radical alterity and the embodiment of biopolitics, animals are simultaneously exceptional and exemplary to the biopolitical state.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Colleen Glenney Boggs
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American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity
Abu Ghraib
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Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower
Frederick Douglass
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Animals and the Letter of the Law
Edgar Allan Poe
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Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity
Emily Dickinson
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Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography
Katharine Lee Bates andBarbara Bush
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Epilogue
Colleen Glenney Boggs
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End Matter
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