Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality

Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality

Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality was written by and Christopher Peterson. The 200 page book was published by Fordham Univ Press in 2013 (originally in 2012) with an ISBN 10 of 0823245209. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality mentions 1 serial killers including Christopher Peterson. The author Christopher Peterson has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

In contemporary race and sexuality studies, the topic of animality emerges almost exclusively in order to index the dehumanization that makes discrimination possible. Bestial Traces argues that a more fundamental disavowal of human animality conditions the bestialization of racial and sexual minorities. Hence, when conservative politicians equate homosexuality with bestiality, they betray an anxious effort to deny the animality inherent in all sexuality. Focusing on literary texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Wright, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee, together with philosophical texts by Derrida, Heidegger, Agamben, Freud, and Nietzsche, Peterson maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals c...