Leigh Claire La Berge

Marx for Cats

A Radical Bestiary

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Produktbeschreibung

Leigh Claire La Berge revises the medieval form of the bestiary to meet Marxist critique to show how cats have been central to both the consolidation of capitalism as well as some of its most fiercest critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019251
• ISBN-10: 1478019255
• Artikelnr.: 67744350

Autorenporträt

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Cat out of the Bag  1
Part I. Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats,
800–1500
1. Lion Kings  25
Intermezzo 1. The Lion-Cat Dialectic  53
2. The Devil’s Cats  58
Part II. The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in the Age of
Empire, 1500–1800
3. Divine Lynxes  95
Intermezzo 2. The Tiger-Tyger Dialectic  125
4. Revolutionary Tigers  129
Part III. Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its
Appropriation of Cats, 1800–1900
5. Wildcats  177
Intermezzo 3. The Cat-Mouse Dialectic  207
6. Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile  212
Part IV. Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions
Against Capitalism, 1900–2000
7. Sabo-Tabbies  251
Intermezzo 4. The Cat-Comrade Dialectic  288
8. Black Panthers  294
Epilogue. Pussy Cats  329
Notes  339
Bibliography  363
Index  383