Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife

by Akira Mizuta Lippit

Book Overview

A fascinating exploration of the symbolic place animals hold within our culture.

Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816634866
• ISBN13: 9780816634866
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"