Animal Gaze: Stalking Subjectivities in Southern African Fiction

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Wendy Woodward, The Animal Gaze: Stalking Subjectivities in Southern African Fiction (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2008)

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A must-read for anyone who wants to write about J.M. Coetzee, Woodward draws together an astonishing range of writers from the region in order to demonstrate how alternate traditions including African traditional thought inform representations of animals as social and political subjects. The argument provides a ground-breaking corrective to the Euro-American-centrism of literary studies in general, and in particular to the Derridean-deconstructive assumption that the “absolute other” is signalled by the animal gaze. - SUSAN McHUGH