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Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression

Out of Print
Series: Posthumanities Volume: 40
By: Julian Yates(Author)
368 pages
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  • Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast ISBN: 9781517900670 Paperback Jan 2017 Out of Print #242818
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In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals "write"? How does their "writing" mark our lives – our past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges, gold, and yeast mark the stories of those animals we call "human".

Bringing together often separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and biopolitics, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come into being through our relations to 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 of what Julian Yates names a "multispecies impression", the way all acts of writing are saturated with the "writing" of other beings. Yates then develops a multimodal reading strategy that traces a series of anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with sheep (keyed to the story of biopolitics), oranges (keyed to economy), and yeast (keyed to the notion of foundation or infrastructure).

Working with an array of materials (published and archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to postmodern), Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is a methodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in the twenty-first century.

Contents

Impression

Part I. Sheep
1. Counting Sheep in the Belly of the Wolf
2. What Was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions (Otium for Sheep)

Part II. Oranges
3. Invisible Inc. (Time for Oranges)
4. Gold You Can Eat (On Theft)

Part III. Yeast
5. Bread and Stones (On Bubbles)

Erasure
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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Biography

Julian Yates is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (Minnesota, 2003).

Out of Print
Series: Posthumanities Volume: 40
By: Julian Yates(Author)
368 pages
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