Humanizing Corporeal Spectacle: Humor and Resistance in Indra Sinha's Animal's People

• Main Author: Estok, Simon C.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: corporeal theory; monstrosity; disability studies; ecocriticism; narrative method
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/20; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1923/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2020_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Theorizing_20Corporeality_20in_20the_20Climate_20Change_20Era_20__20Estok.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article examines Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and the comments it makes about the long- term corporeal effects of environmental catastrophes. Sinha’s choice of a first person narrative strategy strongly sharpens the visceral impact of the story. The narrator is a lovably unlovable misfit who h...