jacob brandler is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Oxford and a postgraduate member of the Rothermere American Institute, researching the exclusive nature of American equality as a nexus in the thinking of White American polygenists and Black American nationalists that interacted with several paradigm shifts (the rise of materialism/empiricism, innate democracy, and the intensification of the slavery issue) in the period before the American Civil War, 1837 to 1861. In this research, the conception of animals features prominently as a specimen of the Other as well as in the blurring and reinforcing of the metaphysical boundary between human and animals in Western thought. Email: jacob.brandler@linacre.ox.ac.uk
parag kumar deka is a doctoral fellow at the Department of English, Gauhati University, India. His research work is titled “Animality, Rationality, and the Modern State in J. M. Coetzee's Works.” His publications include the book chapter “Lives of Their Own:...
