Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)

__Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World__ studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, __Entangled Fictions__ argues that the corpus is limited epistemologically and politically when it comes to their examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions from autobiographical to spectra in effort to introduce readers to fictional worlds marked by human-nonhuman fluidity and trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before the telos of human extinction became either a global or local concern. Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, Entangled Fictions argues that the corpus is limited epistemologically and politically when it comes to their examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions from autobiographical to spectra in an effort to introduce readers to fictional worlds marked by human–nonhuman fluidity and trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before the telos of human extinction became either a global or local concern. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Introduction: On a Personal Note 8 1 Theoretical Possibilities and Provocations 24 2 Companionable Fiction: Unbecoming Human 49 3 Becoming More Than Human: Poetic Metamorphoses 86 4 Toward a Stray Manifesto 127 Epilogue: Spectral Animality or, How to Be Haunted by the Dead Nonhuman? 155 Acknowledgements 161 Bibliography 163 Index 171 Provocations;,Metamorphoses;,Manifesto Provocations,Metamorphoses,Manifesto "Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, Entangled Fictions argues that the corpus is limited epistemologically and politically when it comes to their examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions from autobiographical to spectra in effort to introduce readers to fictional worlds marked by human-nonhuman fluidity and trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before the telos of human extinction became either a global or local concern"-- Provided by publisher