Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire

by Kaori Nagai

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030514927
• ISBN13: 9783030514921
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"