Animals and Desire in South African Fiction

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the nonhuman nature of desire, a biopower that, in its unpredictability, can frustrate regimes of management and control. Price wonders how animals' different desires might enable new modes of thought to positively transform and resist the status quo. This book contends that South African literary works employ nonhuman desire and certain indigenous notions of desire to imagine a South Africa that can be markedly different from the past.

Aceasta carte considera potentialul politic al experientelor afective ale dorintei, reflectate in literatura contemporana din Africa de Sud. Jason Price sustine ca definitiile dorintei desfasurate de cultura capitalista si coloniala mentin inegalitatea sociala prin gestionarea relatiilor pentru a asigura un flux constant de capital si placere pentru clasele dominante, in timp ce intalnirile afective cu animalele dezvaluie natura neumana a dorintei, o bioputerea care, in imprevizibilitatea sa, poate frustra regimurile de management si control.