Of sheep, oranges, and yeast : a multispecies impression / Julian Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Julian, author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 40.

Posthumanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature, Experimental.

American literature--21st century.

American literature.

Sheep in literature.

Physical Description:

366 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

Bringing together often separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and bio politics, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come into being through our relations with other animal, plant, fungal, microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. The book opens-and closes-in the company of a Shakespearean character talking through his painful encounter with the skin of a lamb (in the form of parchment). This encounter stages a visceral awareness or what Julian Yates names a "multispecies impression": the way all acts of writing are saturated with the "writing" of other beings. Yates's multimodal reading strategy traces a series of anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with sheep (biopolitics), oranges (economy), and yeast (the notion of foundation or infrastructure). Working with an array of materials (published and archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to postmodern), the book allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is a methodology that fundamentally alters what t means to read in the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Impression

Sheep

Counting sheep in the belly of the wolf

What was pastoral (again)? More versions (otium for sheep)

Oranges

Invisible Inc. (time for oranges)

Gold you can eat (on theft)

Yeast

Bread and stones (on bubbles)

Erasure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517900663

1517900662

9781517900670

1517900670

OCLC:

960043510