Animal rites American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / [electronic resource] :
Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell.
- University of Chicago Press, c2003.
- 1 online resource (xv, 237 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights and the poverty of humanism -- In the shadow of Wttgenstein's Lion: language, ethics, and the question of the animal -- Subject to sacrifice: ideology, psychoanalysis, and the discourse of species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of The Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer) -- Aficionados and friend killers: rearticulating race and gender via species in Hemingway -- Faux posthumanism: the discourse of species and the neocolonial project in Michael Crichton's Congo -- Conclusion: postmodern ethics, thequestion of the animal, and the imperatives of posthumanist theory.