THE ANIMAL GAZE, animal subjectivities in southern African narratives

192 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008

Explores the work of southern African writers - Olive Schreiner, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Eugene Marais, J.M.Coetzee, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Michiel Heyns, Marlene van Niekerk, Linda Tucker and others - who represent animals as individual subjects, asking us to think differently about animals and our relationships with them.

Wendy Woodward is a Professor in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape.