BOOK REVIEW: KAORI NAGAI, "IMPERIAL BEAST FABLES: ANIMALS, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE", LONDON: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2020, 265 P.
Although often reduced to moralizing maxims, enjoyed for their exoticism, or relegated to the realm of children’s literature, fables resist such restrictive confinements by creating a narrative space that invites the contemplation of intricate political, social, and (trans)cultural relations. Kaori...
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| Language: | deu |
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Cluj University Press
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia |
| Online Access: | http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbphilologia/article/view/278 |
| Summary: | Although often reduced to moralizing maxims, enjoyed for their exoticism, or relegated to the realm of children’s literature, fables resist such restrictive confinements by creating a narrative space that invites the contemplation of intricate political, social, and (trans)cultural relations. Kaori Nagai’s Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism and the British Empire underlines this generic potential by examining “the fable as a theatre of the human-animal relationship … within the context of British imperialism” of the long nineteenth century (6).
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| ISSN: | 1220-0484 2065-9652 |