1: "Mutant Community Building in Indra Sinha's 'Animal's People'" (A Retrospective)

shape change jump in the mutagenic pool I read my capstone essay from college almost a decade later with my friend. We discuss, analyze, critique, and unpack it. The episode includes discussions of the Bhopal disaster of 1984; fictionalizing real-world trauma; human/animal distinctions; Zoe/Bios; neoliberalism and neocolonialism; biopower; necropolitics; queering the human; eco-anarchism; fantasy as a critical tool; faith in the face of tragedy; toxicity as a route to community; abjection; the subaltern; schizoanalysis; the Western gaze; politics beyond death; immortal corporations; climate crisis; the end of the 'first world'; apocalyptic prefiguring; accelerationism; and more. Message us on Instagram to get the full essay. Music by Jackie, Wench, Golemm, The Hated, Zach, and Mirrored Fatality. Bibliography for essay: Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford University Press, 1998. Pdf. Butler, Judith. “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”. Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. Print. Charles, Andre. “Born Naked”. Born Naked, 2014. Edelman, Lee. "The future is kid stuff: Queer theory, disidentification, and the death drive." Narrative 6.1 (1998): 18-30. Pdf.  Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population. Springer, 2007. Print.  Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, 2011. Pdf. Johnston, J. O. "“A Nother World” in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People." Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 62 no. 2, 2016, pp. 118-144. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/620766. Pdf.  “Khaufpur: City of Promise.” Khaufpur, Elegant Themes, 2007, www.khaufpur.com. Mahlstedt, Andrew. "Animal's Eyes: Spectacular Invisibility and the Terms of Recognition in Indra Sinha's Animal's People." Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 46.3 (2013): 59-74. Pdf.  Mbembe, Achille. "Violence and Redemption." Necropolitics 15.1 (2003): 11-40. Pdf. "mutant, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2016. Web. 12 December 2016. Web.  Nixon, Rob. "Neoliberalism, slow violence, and the environmental picaresque." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 443-467. Pdf.  Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011. Pdf.  Sinha, Indra. Animal's People: A Novel. Simon and Schuster, 2009. Print.  Snell, Heather R. "Assessing the Limitations of Laughter in Indra Sinha's Animal's People." Postcolonial Text 4.4 (2009). Pdf.

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