{"product_id":"the-postcolonial-animal-evan-mwangi-9780472054190","title":"The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies by analyzing how postcolonial African writing-including folktales, religion, philosophy, and anticolonial movements-has been mobilized to call for humane treatment of nonhuman others. Mwangi illustrates how African authors grapple with the possibility of an alternative to eating meat, and how they present postcolonial animal-consuming cultures as shifting toward an embrace of cultural and political practices that avoid the use of animals and minimize animal suffering. \u003ci\u003eThe Postcolonial Animal\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes texts that imagine a world where animals are not abused or used as a source of food, clothing, or labor, and that offer instruction in how we might act responsibly and how we should relate to others-both human and nonhuman-in order to ensure a world free of oppression. The result is an equitable world where even those who are utterly foreign to us are accorded respect and where we recognize the rights of all marginalized groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evan Mwangi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472054198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472054190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Evan Mwangi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946675470591,"sku":"9780472054190","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c1c33d10-f2ab-4257-b577-0d8663b37be4.jpg?v=1681514495","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-postcolonial-animal-evan-mwangi-9780472054190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}