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Humanimal: a project for future children

By Rider , Bhanu Kapil

Book information

Publisher
Kelsey Street Press
ISBN
9780932716705, 9780932716774, 0932716709
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2620527 bytes)
Pages
x, 71 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Feral children in literature

Description

"In this new prose document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate these orphans--through language instruction and forcible correction of supinated limbs--Humanimal functions as a healing mutation for three bodies and a companion poiesis for future physiologies. Through wolfgirls Kamala and Amala, there is a grafting: what scars down into the feral opens out also into the fierce, into a remembrance of Kapil's father. The humanimal text becomes one in which personal and postcolonial histories cross a wilderness to form supported metabiology" -- From the publisher.

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