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...Carla Freccero The killing of San Francisco resident Diane Whipple in front of her Pacific Heights apartment door in San Francisco in 2001 by Presa Canario dogs provides a framework in this article for identifying a “carnivorous virility” in the merging of man and dog. Dogs, according to Donna...

..., petting the length of her. I have never seen a man so happy. He told me that he gets to be a child again when he’s with his cows. Well, first he said he relives childhood, but he corrected himself: he gets to be a child. He lived on a farm growing up, and they had chickens, cows, and dogs...

... orthographic building blocks for Chinese writing that have the form of bugs, beasts, or dogs, in combination with phonetic indicators. This article explains how, when, and why this Chinese ethnonymy (system of names of peoples) for China's barbarians was constructed and standardized as part of the formation...

... they are being forcibly socialized in drug detention centers and postwar rehabilitation hospitals. And if we are not contemplating suicide, we are heading straight into the grave or up the maggot-ridden butts of street dogs. Of course, the residents of the bleak house have long been of interest to social...

... Tawil-­Souri I jealously watched Dr. Tamar filling in Nura’s . . . Jerusalem passport. Neither Nura [my dog] nor Dr. Tamar [the veterinarian] realized how damn serious I was about replacing Nura’s photograph with mine. I don’t think either of them knew how difficult...

..., thus cautioning against a hasty, uncritical embrace of posthumanist discourses. Freccero’s theorization of “transpecies” becoming in the merging of man and dog, the “cynanthrope,” is one especially pertinent example...

... by something like his everyday call for people to give him stuff. In the frst of the two coauthored oral histories that I mentioned, Brendan Mullen fled the following report on the scene: Around the time (GI) came out, Danny’s Oki Dog on Santa Monica...

... and boarding kennel for watchdogs. He spends his time working on an operetta about the last years of Byron in Italy and volunteering part-time at the Animal Welfare League, until he and Lucy are attacked: three black men invade their house, beat Lurie and set him on fire, rape Lucy, and kill the dogs...

... on war culture, modernism, the twentieth-century novel and film, and postcolonial and cultural studies. He is the author of Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire and Modern British Literature (forth- coming, Oxford University Press). His published work includes “The Dogs of War: Myths...

... critique of Pakistani and Indian nationalisms as the absurd determination to bring forth certainty from irresolution, Saadat Hasan Manto’s celebrated short story “The Dog of Teetwal,” is set right within this uncertain borderland: the village of Teet...

... British Literature.” His published work includes “The Dogs of War: Myths of British Anti-Americanism,” in Anti-Americanism, ed. Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross (New York University Press), and “Defus- ing the English Patient,” an essay on the film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s...

... the Ndebele chiefs, whose food reserves had been scorched during the war, requested famine relief, Heyman replied: “The town was full of stray dogs; dog to dog; we might kill those and eat them if we could catch them.”34 Heyman also chaired the 1894 Loot Committee to manage the theft and distribution...

... with their bellies cut open with bayonets or machetes, bodies strewn (sembrados) on stakes, the smell of burnt flesh who gave of those burned alive and dogs devouring abandoned bodies that could not be buried, correspond to a real event” (CEH, 3...

... body writhes, muscle groups autonomously fight themselves in a war within, an increasingly rapid paced centrifugal force that culminates with jaw-dropping back bends and downward dog positions that reveal a tautly defined skeletal frame. Toxified flesh gleans in the luminous traces of caca-colored...

... doctor, shouting, said, “Son of a bitch, you have to stay here.” When we sat we were given four biscuits and one-sixteenth of a pound of sugar. White people call these biscuits “dog biscuits” and feed them to dogs. Oh dear god! Are we Indians equal to dogs? They get monthly...

... “soft.” Waterboarding, cramped confinement, slapping, stress positions, nudity, food deprivation, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, and tem- perature controls have been used on Abu Zubaydah, while attack dogs, electrocution, restraints, beatings, chemical attacks, sodomy, and forced genital...

... shot in countries across the globe designed to convince audiences that “it’s a dog’s world.” Images of naked New Guinea “savages” are intercut with almost-naked white women flirting at the seashore. White Europeans engage in a deadly bullfight, which has followed...

... of one little girl. They also had two dogs, however one of the dogs developed cancer in one of his legs and could not walk, so my employer went out and bought a double stroller, which meant that I had to push the little girl and the dog through the streets of Manhattan in this stroller...

... fuel Europe’s imperial fantasies for centuries. European explorers of the New World in the first decades after Colum- bus believed in the superiority of their “writing, navigational instruments, ships, warhorses, attack dogs, effective armor,” and gunpowder, and of their Christian culture...

... kinds of others to whom attachment may count as ethically significant, from dogs and maggots to intensely copresent strangers, dreamt familiars, and even corpses. As we trace these attachments through daily life across continents, classes, institutions, and genres, we hope to give an emergent sense...