Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boggs, Colleen Glenney.

Animalia Americana : animal representations and biopolitical subjectivity / Colleen Glenney Boggs

p. cm. — (Critical perspectives on animals: theory, culture, science, and law)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-16122-0 (cloth : acid-free paper) —

ISBN 978-0-231-16123-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper) —

ISBN 978-0-231-53194-8 (e-bo0k)

1. American literature—History and criticism. 2. Animals in literature. 3. Subjectivity in literature. 4. Human-animal relationships—United States. I. Title.

PS169.A54B64 2013

810.9’362—dc23 2012019970

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