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This chapter considers the ethics involved in “eating,” considering the term in a broad sense as a negative iteration of desire referring to eating, sexuality, culture, and government corruption. The first half looks at Zinaid Meeran’s Tanuki Ichiban and considers the logics of consumption and biopolitical concerns operating in characters’ relationship with animals and with other humans. As in this chapter, Meeran’s novel features a scene of interspecies sexuality that invokes questions of species, race, ethics, and biopolitics. After briefly returning to the question of eating in The Whale Caller, a novel discussed in the previous chapter, it concludes with a discussion of corruption in Zakes Mda’s short play The Mother of All Eating.
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Price, J.D. (2017). Consuming the Other and the Ethics of “Eating”: Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and the Mother of All Eating . In: Animals and Desire in South African Fiction. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6_4
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