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Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai

By (author) Kimberly W. Benston

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Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature explores literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human â€œbeingâ€ to its limits. This project arises within the question, â€œcan an animal die?,â€ formulated in response to Martin Heideggerâ€™s famous assertion that, properly speaking, animals cannot â€œdieâ€ but can only â€œperish,â€ an assertion that sharply summarizes western â€œhumanistâ€ philosophical discourse â€“ particularly as etched in the â€œmodern turnâ€ initiated by Descartes â€“ in which the â€œhumanâ€ emerges precisely as that (non)animal which enjoys a distinctive relation to both the inner essence and outer edge of existence. Alongside the philosophical continuum that stretches from the Cartesian reduction of animality to mechanistic re-action to the Heideggerian marginalization of animal life as active but unreflective materiality, literature develops a counter-examination of the human-animal nexus that variously implicates the animal in human ontology and explores that intersection as constitutive of social narratives and cultural institutions. Texts from Shakespeare to Desai have been selected for both their variety of formal and linguistic inflections of the human-animal encounter, and for their shared participation in an evolving discourse that is here termed â€œhumanimalityâ€: the ever-shifting interaction of human and nonhuman creatures that animates our still-evolving modernity.

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