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Good night, Gorilla
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
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Hippopotamus Dead or Alive
Lately, the hippopotamus has become a \"problem animal\" of sorts in Latin America, both in real life and in fiction. For one, there is the notorious case of Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses. When Hacienda Nápoles, the estate, amusement park, and private zoo of Colombia's most famous drug dealer, was confiscated in the early 1990s, his animals were placed in zoos across the country. Since many of the novels featuring hippos are narco-themed, the presence of the hippopotamus at first appears to be a mere literary representation of the link between drug and animal trafficking, a mimetic reflection of the narco-fad of showcasing wealth through private zoos. Yet the meaning of this presence runs deeper, as Esch shows through a discussion of two critically acclaimed and commercially successful narco-themed novels in which hippopotamuses play a key role: El ruido de las cosas al caer (2011) by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Fiesta en la madriguera (2010) by Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos.
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Alan and the animals
Alan, who loves all sorts of animals, has everything from ten rats to ten wild dogs.
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Sammy the seal
Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.
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If I ran the zoo
If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.
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Paperback Tigers: Breaking the Zoo
In recent years, numerous highly lauded works for the global mass market in literary fiction have centered on zoo animals' escape or the destruction of zoos during wartime. When The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle's chapter \"The Zoo Attack\" was published in The New Yorker in 1995, it was central to the birth of Haruki Murakami's reputation in English. Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi (2001), in which a teenaged boy cohabits in a lifeboat with an abandoned zoo's last surviving tiger, won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and a Christmas 2012 film adaptation. Here, Cohn identifies texts that use the zoo's destruction to explore forms of interspecies relation that are minimally politicized and aesthetic modes that are not allegorical.
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Elephants walk together
Asian elephants Precious and Baba grow up in the wild as part of a big family, are captured and sold to a circus, separated, then reunited at a sanctuary. Includes facts about elephants and a list of organizations that help them.
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Rewriting Abject Spaces and Subjectivities in Lauren Beukes's \Zoo City\
This examination of Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes calls for a reimagining of denigrated South African urban spaces and their inhabitants. Drawing primarily on the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler, it investigates the making of abject spaces and subjectivities, suggesting that novels such as Beukes's might allow for readers to see anew so-called slums such as inner-city Hillbrow. It proposes that readers might come to know such spaces and subjectivities more intimately, bringing otherwise marginalised characters and their urban spaces more sharply into focus. This analysis of Beukes's novel considers the role of \"ex-centric\" fiction, fiction that challenges privileged centres of \"belonging.\" Ultimately, this paper explores the potential for resistance such literature might have in the face of the dehumanising impact of othering and abjectification in post-apartheid South Africa.
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