Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication

This article contributes to the history of animals and particularly to the history of the points of view on domestication. While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relation...

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Main Author: Élisabeth Plas
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Language:fra
Published: Association Paul Langevin 2022-08-01
Series:Cahiers d’histoire.
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/19264
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description This article contributes to the history of animals and particularly to the history of the points of view on domestication. While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relationships between men and animals are as social and political as those between men. The extraordinary encounter of a French soldier and a panther during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt questions the contemporary thesis on domestication, creates an allegory of practical and fantasmatic relationships between colonizers and indigenous, while inventing other possible and alternative relationships between animals and men.
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Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
Cahiers d’histoire.
domestication
animal history
Balzac
zoopoetic
orientalism
animal studies
title Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
title_full Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
title_fullStr Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
title_full_unstemmed Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
title_short Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication
title_sort domestiquer l orient la contre histoire balzacienne de la domestication
topic domestication
animal history
Balzac
zoopoetic
orientalism
animal studies
url https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/19264
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