| 書目名稱 | Imperial Beast Fables | | 副標題 | Animals, Cosmopolita | | 編輯 | Kaori Nagai | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/463/462467/462467.mp4 | | 概述 | Offers innovative interpretations of the fable genre, with emphasis on the non-European fable tradition.Discusses literary texts by well-known authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, and Robert | | 叢書名稱 | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s .Jungle Books., in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquingthem. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth centur | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 關鍵詞 | Animal; Fiction; Empire; Britain; Derrida; animal studies; fables | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51493-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-51495-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-51493-8Series ISSN 2634-6338 Series E-ISSN 2634-6346 | | issn_series | 2634-6338 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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