La laisse du tigre: F(r)ictions humanimales en Amerique du Nord
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By (author): David Jaclin
Un tigre du Bengale, qui barbote anxieusement dans une petite piscine en plastique durant l''ete et que l''on nourrit de viande de supermarche, est-il toujours un tigre? En examinant l''existence troublee d''animaux reputes sauvages, mais vivant desormais de conditions domestiques et artificielles puissantes, ce livre pose la double question de la communication et de l''animalite.
La vie accidentee de ces animaux trafiques transpire nos changements ecologiques actuels, incarne la disparition vertigineuse d''especes animales et renvoie a la deterioration acceleree d''habitats naturels.
Dans ce livre, on decouvre des biographies animales, comme celle d''un chimpanze cobaye (Rachel) evoluant dans un sanctuaire evangelisateur ou encore, celle d''un dauphin (Nellie) au chomage , mis aux encheres apres la faillite du parc d''attraction qui l''a vu naitre et grandir. Mises en resonance, chacune de ces biographies compose un veritable bestiaire d''etres qui pourraient sembler provenir d''histoires fictives abracadabrantesques et qui, pourtant, sont tout sauf imaginaires. Voila qui permet de reposer, autrement, la vieille question de l''espece.
Ce livre est publie en francais.
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If a Bengal tiger anxiously splashes around in a small plastic pool in the summer and feeds on supermarket meat, is it still a tiger? By examining the troubled existence of so-called wild animals now living under overwhelmingly domestic and artificial conditions, this book raises the dual question of communication and animality.
The turbulent lives of these trafficked animals reflect current ecological changes, embody the precipitous disappearance of animal species, and denote the accelerated deterioration of natural habitats.
This book presents animal biographies, such as that of a former laboratory chimpanzee (Rachel) now living in an evangelizing sanctuary, or that of an unemployed dolphin (Nellie) put up for auction after the amusement park where it was born and raised went bankrupt. Echoing one another, these biographies make up a bestiary of beings that seem to have leapt from grotesque fiction. Yet, they are anything but imaginary. And thus the age-old question of species is raised once again, albeit in an entirely different fashion than before.
This book is published in French.
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