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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2022  
         
  Article:   BOOK - KAORI NAGAI, IMPERIAL BEAST FABLES: ANIMALS, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, LONDON: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2020, 265 P..

Authors:  ADINA DRAGOȘ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Available online: 30 June 2022; Available print: 30 June 2022
pp. 385-387

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Although often reduced to moralizing maxims, enjoyed for their exoticism, or relegated to the realm of children’s literature, fables resist such restrictive confinements by creating a narrative space that invites the contemplation of intricate political, social, and (trans)cultural relations. Kaori Nagai’s Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism and the British Empire underlines this generic potential by examining “the fable as a theatre of the human-animal relationship … within the context of British imperialism” of the long nineteenth century (6).
 
         
     
         
         
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