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Christopher Peterson - Bestial Traces - 9780823245215 - V9780823245215
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Bestial Traces

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Description for Bestial Traces Paperback. Maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals can be mitigated but never finally abolished Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.

On February 18th, 2009, Sean Delonas published a controversial cartoon in the New York Post depicting two policemen shooting and killing a monkey with the caption: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” On the adjoining page was a photo of President Barack Obama signing this very piece of legislation into law. Although public debate over the cartoon has centered entirely on its potentially racist overtones, we might ask from a Darwinian perspective how the stereotype of the black ape works to disavow a universally shared human apehood. How might we comprehend animality in non-pejorative ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823245215
SKU
V9780823245215
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Christopher Peterson
Christopher Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality, and Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity.

Reviews for Bestial Traces
Bestial Traces is a brave book! Arguing that our sentiments on animals are unavoidably implicated in politically contentious notions of race and sexuality, Peterson examines this entangled relation in Poe, Wright, Roth, and Coetzee. Insisting that the “irrational phantasm” of race cannot simply be thought away or eradicated in an act of pure disavowal, he seeks to exploit a 'lesser ... Read more

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