LEADER 03607nam 22006135 450 001 9910484874803321 005 20230810171227.0 010 $a3-030-51493-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-51493-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011363728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6274481 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-51493-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011363728 100 $a20200728d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperial Beast Fables $eAnimals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire /$fby Kaori Nagai 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 311 $a3-030-51492-7 327 $aIntroduction: Rats in the Box -- Chapter 1: Winged Tales: The Advent of the Imperial Beast Fable -- Chapter 2: ?Once Upon a Time When Animals Spoke?: Theories of the Beast Fable -- Chapter 3: Into the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books -- Chapter 4: Kangaroo Notebook: Abe?s Metatherian Journey -- Chapter 5: Animal Alphabets: Chesterton?s Dog, Browning?s Rats, Lear?s Blue Baboon -- Chapter 6: Fabling Cosmopolitanism: The Ark Esperanto. 330 $aThis book coins the term ?imperial beast fable? to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling?s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 606 $aLiterature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aLiterature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aAsian Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aLiterature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a398.2 676 $a800 700 $aNagai$b Kaori$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225942 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484874803321 996 $aImperial Beast Fables$92846339 997 $aUNINA