notes from prompt

-the animal question, human-animal relation and its cultural, rhetorical, and political implications, representation of animals and the human-animal relationship in literature, film, and popular culture, discourses of modernity (interdependence of discourses of race and racism, patriarchy, heterosexism, colonialism, and animality), rhetorical function of animals in political discourse, postmodern art, philosophy, and poststructuralist theory; rhetoric of the animal rights movement (legal efforts to define some species of animals as “persons”), relation of animal cruelty to human violence against humans (serial and mass murder, terrorism, and genocide); domestication as rhetoric of domination; cultural function of zoos in a postcolonial world; the rhetorical and political uses of anthropomorphism; the ethics and politics of animal industries (factory farming and pet industries), complexities of our relationships with nonhuman animals and our ethical obligations to them

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