Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in English
Department
English
First Advisor
Deborah Barker
Second Advisor
Leigh Anne Duck
Third Advisor
Karen Raber
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
This thesis examines three twentieth-century novels—Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale, and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are governed and controlled in a biopolitical era. Each chapter focuses on textual links between speciesism and the oppression of particular human groups based on gender, sexuality, and race, arguing that each novel offers new ways of thinking about both our own species, other animal species, and how humans relate to the nonhuman world.
Recommended Citation
Gowan, Temple Jo, "Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1193.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1193