ReFiguring Global Challenges

Amanda Minervini is the director of the Italian Program at Colorado College, USA, and the author of “Mussolini Speaks. History Reviewed” (The Massachusetts Review, 2019) and “Face to Face: Iconic Representations and Juxtapositions of St. Francis of Assisi and Mussolini during Italian Fascism” (M. Epstein, F. Orsitto, A. Righi, TOTalitarian Arts: the Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass Society, 2017).Amelie Björck is Associate Professor for Comparative Literature, Södertörn University, Sweden and author of Zooësis. Om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv (2019), and editor and author of Squirreling. Human-Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region (2022).Omri Grinberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of “Testimony as Event: Israeli NGOs, Palestinian Witnesses, and the Bureaucratic Logic of Human Rights” (Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2021). With Yiftach Ashkenazy, he is also the author of “Who Let the Mad Dogs Out? Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon” (Postcolonial Animality, edited by Suvadip Sinha & Amit Raul Baishya, 2019).Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor of South Asian literature at University of Central Florida. She is the co-editor of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2022) and her monograph on Kashmir’s new literature is forthcoming.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAmanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg and Amrita GhoshPart 1Films as Sites of Transformation1 Migratory Aesthetics Proximity and MutualityMieke Bal2 Inequality and Contemporary World CinemaAndreas Jacobsson3 Haider Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in KashmirAmrita GhoshPart 2On Ethical Readings and Subversions4 Reading as Imaginative Resistance Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the CountrySunayani Bhattacharya5 Reader as Witness Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary LiteratureCassandra FalkePart 3Planetary Connections Human and the Animal6 Decolonizing Animals A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys”Amelie Björck7 Globalization and Critical Animal StudiesDominick LaCapraCoda It’s Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapraAmanda MinerviniIndex

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