Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
(Part of the Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law Series)
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Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the ways in which Americans enact their humanity and regulate subjects in the biopolitical state. Biopower, or a politics that extends its reach to life, thrives...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231161239
ISBN13:9780231161237
Release Date:January 2013
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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