Animals and Desire in South African Fiction

Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, African, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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Author: Jason D. Price ISBN: 9783319567266
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: July 15, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Jason D. Price
ISBN: 9783319567266
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: July 15, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals’ different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.

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This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals’ different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.

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