Of Cattle and Men: Interspecies Encounters in Ana Paula Maia’s De Gados e Homens
Santiago Eslava-Bejarano
Abstract:The novel De Gados e Homens (2013) takes place in a provincial slaughterhouse situated on a polluted valley. Its author, Ana Paula Maia, depicts the interspecies encounters that take place in this context and suggests possible, albeit troubling, means of acknowledging nonhuman agency. This article examines how Maia’s novel De Gados e Homens (2014) develops a zoopoetics of the slaughterhouse through the eyes of Edgar Wilson, the slaughterer protagonist. The first section analyzes the polluted valley and the sla… Show more
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