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... of species difference” (2015: 4–6). For example, Beauty the horse (called “Darkie” by his first “master” [Sewell 1877 : 10–11]) ultimately expresses long-suffering submission to—not rebellion against—the (white) human, and Joe the (brown) dog—who has been cruelly maimed—is explicitly likened to “a very ugly...

...Molly Wallace Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . By Ursula K. Heise . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2016 . xiii, 280 pp. Cloth, $82.50 ; paper $27.50 ; e-book available. Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature...

...Russ Castronovo Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . By Neel Ahuja . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages...

...Leslie Bow Abstract This essay explores anthropomorphism in contemporary children’s literature, books in which animals model racialized behaviors in order to promote racial resilience and “teach tolerance.” Unveiling the unintended consequences of invoking species difference as a form of racial...

...Christina Chia 836  American Literature The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture. By Michael Lundblad. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. xi, 218 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. By Susan McHugh...

...Celeste Langan Duke University Press 2006 Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory . By Cary Wolfe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xv, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism...

... heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological level of species. Sentimentalism functions as a mode of evolutionary theory, one that articulated the Lamarckian belief that sensory...

... into discrete species. This essay identifies the current pandemic as a crisis in knowledge—one in which assumptions such as Linnaean categories and species boundaries need re-examining—and explores historical and disciplinary means of challenging the limited and often deadly knowledge regime...

...Rachel Adams Abstract Care is the intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, but it is also about acting in ways that sustain other species and the lives of strangers distant in time and space. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vulnerabilities and gaps...

... regeneration of the comic book was made possible by the revamping of a key American fantasy figure, the superhero, from a transparent champion of the national interest to a genetic and species outcast mapping the limits of the human. This refashioning was most visible in the invention of the “mutant superhero...

...Eve Dunbar Abstract Deeply rooted racial logics of Western culture have long used animal metaphors and affiliations as a method for negatively coding the species permeability between black people and nonhuman animals. Responsively, many black cultural producers have sought to acquire access...

...Elizabeth Barnes Following Donna Haraway’s concept of the “killable” animal in When Species Meet , this essay looks at the social conditions and literary conventions that render ostensibly “priceless” objects, like pets and children, disposable in the Victorian period. Through the Victorian trope...

...Michael Lundblad In Epistemology of the Closet , Eve Sedgwick argues that the discourse of sexuality shifted at the end of the nineteenth century from an emphasis on sexual acts to sexual identities. Sedgwick builds upon Foucault's famous declaration that the “species” of the homosexual was born...

... to the conventional wisdom of our consumer economy it is ironically the value of the commodified body that has devalued the species and rendered it expendable. As the authors of a 2015 report in the journal Science put it, while some species have been left alone and even protected once they neared the threshold...

... of universalism, the notion of a single human species operating along a linear narrative of social and technological progress that culminates in political liberalism and twentieth-century/twenty-first-century technoculture. The Anthropocene, as it is commonly formulated, both affirms and denies this incredibly...

.... The aesthetic, in this way, gestures toward a paradigm of the humanities as a species-wide discipline, planetary in its archives, and planetary in its operating networks. I am not the first to see the aesthetic in this light. Immanuel Kant, in Critique of Judgment and in his political writings, especially...

..., or developmentalism. This hypothesis, which laid the groundwork for Darwin’s decisive contribution, proposed that species could change over time and give rise to new and different forms of life. For Emer- son, I believe, developmentalism served as a model for reconceiving racial and national history, indeed...

... in actual specie (gold and silver), while paper money and bank- notes not backed by specie offered the mere illusion of value.7 For example, Thomas Paine argued that g]old and silver are the emis- sions of nature; paper is the emission of artP]aper issued by an assembly as moneyislikeputting...

... is fighting to “take back” a planet your species has utterly destroyed? I suppose the appeal of these franchises lies partly in their optimistic versions of the humans-vs.-machines trope that defines an entire subgenre of science fiction, insofar as there is something plucky about our refusal to go...

... neglected reminds us that class is an important term in the field of natural history where it (along with such categories as family, species, and genus) presumes to describe stable, strictly delimited, and essential orders of living things. This second use is rather opposed to the first...