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"We are all souls": Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin.

Examining the notion of "dog-men" in Coetzee's Disgrace and Tyulkin's documentary Not about Dogs, I argue that when the main characters become dogmen and dog-women they share with dogs the status of subaltern border-creatures. I view the spaces in the Eastern Cape and eastern Kazakhstan as borderlan...

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Published in:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 21 - 35
Main Author: Mondry, Henrietta
Format: Article
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2018
Subjects:
Disgrace (Book : Coetzee)
Documentary films
Human-animal relationships in literature
Literary characters
Anthropological research
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Examining the notion of "dog-men" in Coetzee's Disgrace and Tyulkin's documentary Not about Dogs, I argue that when the main characters become dogmen and dog-women they share with dogs the status of subaltern border-creatures. I view the spaces in the Eastern Cape and eastern Kazakhstan as borderlands which parallel the mythic lands of Dog-men from White's anthropological study Myths of the Dog-man. These spaces of human-dog interactions, in turn, relate to Foucauldian heterotopias as sites that establish alternative modes of power relations.