Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality

This thesis examines three twentieth-century novels—Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale, and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are governed and controlled in a biopolitical era. Each chapter focuses on textual links between speciesism and the oppression of particular human groups based on gender, sexuality, and race, arguing that each novel offers new ways of thinking about both our own species, other animal species, and how humans relate to the nonhuman world.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in English

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Gowan, Temple Jo

Contributors dc:contributor

• Deborah Barker
• Leigh Anne Duck
• Karen Raber

• animal studies
• biopolitics
• posthumanism
• speciesism
• violence
• American Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1193

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2192