an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life
Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life "
English | ISBN: 1478025077 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1478025077 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers ranging from Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, Toni Morrison, and C. E. Morgan to Jane Bennett, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway, Holland decenters the human in Black feminist thought to interrogate blackness, insurgence, flesh, and femaleness. She examines MOVE’s incarnation as an animal liberation group; uses sovereignty in Morrison’s
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