ISBN:
9781478019251
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9781478016618
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 394 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als La Berge, Leigh Claire Marx for Cats
Keywords:
Social structure in literature
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Social classes in literature
;
Communism in literature
;
Cats in literature
;
Capitalism in literature
;
Literature History and criticism
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PHILOSOPHY / General
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PETS / Cats / General
Abstract:
"At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a 1200-year arc spanning capitalism's feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the Bourgeois Revolutions that supported capitalism and the Communist revolutions that opposed it, to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and "sabo-tabbies," La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy itself, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Cat out of the Bag -- Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800-1500, CE -- Lion Kings -- The Devil's Cats -- The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in an Age of Empire, 1500-1800 --Divine Lynxes -- Revolutionary Tigers -- Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800-1900 -- Wildcats -- Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile -- Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions against Capitalism, 1900-2000 -- Sabo-Tabbies -- Black Panthers -- Pussy Cats.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 363-382
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