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Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal

Sherryl Vint

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9781846312342

Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.5949/UPO9781846316135

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Sapien Orientalism: Animals, Colonialism, Science Fiction,

Sapien Orientalism: Animals, Colonialism, Science Fiction,

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(p.112) 5. Sapien Orientalism: Animals, Colonialism, Science Fiction,
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Animal Alterity
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DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781846312342.003.0006

This chapter explores the parallels between the human–animal boundary and the discourse of colonialism. It discusses science fiction texts that describe animals exploited by human culture, including the domestication of animals and its role in shaping human cultures and producing the context for imperial expansion.

Keywords:   human–animal boundary, colonialism, science fiction, animals, domestication, imperial expansion

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