CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity

PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, ABU GHRAIB

2. Bestiality Revisited: The Primal Scene of Biopower

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

3. Animals and the Letter of the Law

EDGAR ALLAN POE

4. Animals, Affect, and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity

EMILY DICKINSON

5. Rethinking Liberal Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Animal Autobiography

KATHARINE LEE BATES, BARBARA BUSH

Epilogue

 

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index