Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrat
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Table of contents :
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity (Plymouth Plantation, Abu Ghraib)
2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower (Frederick Douglass)
3. Animals and the Letter of the Law (Edgar Allan Poe)
4. Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity (Emily Dickinson)
5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography (Barbara Bush, Katharine Lee Bates)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index