An other : a black feminist consideration of animal life
Lieu de publication : Durham
Éditeur : Duke University Press
Date de publication : 2023
ISBN : 9781478025078
Langue : Anglais
Notes : Références : p.263-302
Bibliographie : p.303-315
Index : p. 317-324
Sujets :
Féminisme
Histoire
Relations homme-animal
Théorie féministe
Dépouillement du document :
How to read this book
primer : what the animal said
vocabularies : possibility
companionate : species
diversity : a scarcity
love : livestock
horse : flesh
sovereignty : a mercy
the open : . .
Résumé :
In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers ranging from Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, Toni Morrison, and C. E. Morgan to Jane Bennett, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway, Holland decenters the human in Black feminist thought to interrogate blackness, insurgence, flesh, and femaleness. She examines MOVE’s incarnation as an animal liberation group; uses sovereignty in Morrison’s A Mercy to understand blackness, indigeneity, and the animal; analyzes Charles Burnett’s films as commentaries on the place of animals in Black life; and shows how equestrian novels address Black and animal life in ways that rehearse the practices of the slavocracy. By focusing on doing rather than being, Holland demonstrates that Black life is not solely likened to animal life; it is relational and world-forming with animal lives.
Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque
Localisation : Bibliothèque