Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity

by Colleen Glenney Boggs

Book Overview

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