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This book traces a radical politics of species across the work of four significant Anglophone authors of the late twentieth century: Brigid Brophy, Alice Walker, J.M. Coetzee and David Foster Wallace. Presenting an exciting and original perspective, Robert McKay argues that these literary figures tell anthropofugal stories, in which a tendency towards animals coincides with a desire to flee from humanity. Their writing disavows allegiance to humanity's various guises and ideals, dismissing human distinctiveness and disturbing human privilege to reimagine life with so-called animals. While deeply grounded in the practice of literary close reading, Anthropofugal Fictions is also a work of philosophy and theory that shows how doubts about species identity lie at the heart of live debates about gender, sexuality, race and ethics. It is a challenging and provocative account of what it means not to be human, and of living amongst animals without species difference as a legitimation of one's actions.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Set off
1. Species Dissidence - Brigid Brophy's Pro-animal Forms
2. Familiarity - Alice Walker and The Temple of My Familiar
3. A Vegan Form of Life - J. M. Coetzee and The Lives of Animals
4. Carniveracity - David Foster Wallace's Special Kind of Sincerity
Anthropofugue
Notes
Index
