Anthropomorphism or Becoming-animal? Ka-shiang Liu’s Hill of Stray Dogs as a Case in Point
In this paper, I will use Ka-shiang Liu’s Hill of Stray Dogs as case in point to examine how he presents stray dogs’ behaviors, their language, and even their unconscious. I will engage with the questions as follows: is Liu’s animal writing in tune with the concept of becoming-animal which Gilles De...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Transtext(e)s Transcultures
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | In this paper, I will use Ka-shiang Liu’s Hill of Stray Dogs as case in point to examine how he presents stray dogs’ behaviors, their language, and even their unconscious. I will engage with the questions as follows: is Liu’s animal writing in tune with the concept of becoming-animal which Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari advocate? If for Deleuze and Guattari animals operate “more as a device of writing” than as living beings whose conditions of life are of direct concern to the writers,1 does Liu go beyond their limitation and succeed in “giving visible form to what is animal in the animal”?2 To put it another way, does Liu’s animal writing pave the way for human beings to see animals as what Jacques Derrida calls “the seeing other”? In short, this paper would seek to deal with the question concerning whether we human beings can ever let the animal-other speak without running the risk of anthropocentric ventriloquism. |
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