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Palgrave macmillan Captured: The Animal Within Culture This page intentionally left blank Captured: The Animal Within Culture Edited by Melissa Boyde Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts University of Wollongong, Australia Palgrave macmillan Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Melissa Boyde 2014 Remaining chapters © Contributors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-33049-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-46106-6 ISBN 978-1-137-33050-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137330505 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. This book is dedicated to the dear cows Minstrel, Mintie and Minuet and the rest of their herd, to my beautiful furry boys Ambrose, Algie and Leo, and to the girls, Lillian the cat and Madeleine the goose This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations viii List of Plates ix Acknowledgements x Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Melissa Boyde 1 Verticality, Vertigo and Vulnerabilities: Giraffes in J. M. Ledgard’s Novel Giraffe and in the Handspring Puppet Company’s Play, Tall Horse 9 Wendy Woodward 2 The Scramble for Elephants: Exotic Animals and the Imperial Economy 26 John Simons 3 Christian the Lion: An Interview with Ace Bourke 43 Melissa Boyde 4 ‘Mrs Boss! We gotta get those fat cheeky bullocks into that big bloody metal ship!’: Live Export as Romantic Backdrop in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia 60 Melissa Boyde 5 Animal Factories: Exposing Sites of Capture 75 Yvette Watt 6 Albatrosses and Western Attitudes to Killing Wild Birds 84 Graham Barwell 7 Capturing the Songs of Humpback Whales 108 Denise Russell 8 The Dog and the Chameleon Poet 131 Anne Collett 9 What Lies Below: Cephalopods and Humans 152 Helen Tiffin 10 Caught: Sentimental, Decorative Kangaroo Identities in Popular Culture 175 Peta Tait Index 195 vii List of Illustrations 3.1 A Lion Called Christian (2009), book cover, London: © Derek Cattani/Born Free Foundation, courtesy of Random House Group 45 5.1 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2012, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 77 5.2 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2012, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 79 9.1 Olaus Magnum, Soe Orm (1555) 153 9.2 Pierre Dénys de Montfort, Poulpe Colossal (c.1801) 154 9.3 Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou, illustration from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870 edition) 158 9.4 Flask decorated with a large octopus and supplementary motif of sea urchins, seaweed and rocks, Late Neopalatial period. Collection of Herakleion Archaeological Museum 163 9.5 Katsushika Hokusai, Awabi Woman and Octopus (c.1814) 164 9.6 A Nazi German cartoon circa 1938 depicting Churchill as a Jewish octopus encircling the globe 168 9.7 Udo J. Keppler (1904), this cartoon depicts John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company as an octopus wrapping its tentacles around industry and government 169 viii List of Plates (between pp 83–4) 1 Jiawei Shen, ‘The Eternal Hug’, 2013, oil on canvas, 213 × 167cm, courtesy of the artist 2 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2011, gicleé print, 30 × 138cm 3 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2011, gicleé print, 30 × 145cm 4 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2013, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 5 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2013, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 6 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2011, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 7 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2011, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 8 Yvette Watt, Untitled, from the ‘Animal Factories’ series, 2011, gicleé print, 80 × 120cm 9 Souvenir cup from the opening of Old Parliament House on 9 May 1927, courtesy National Museum of Australia 10 Danie Mellor, Red, White and Blue, 2008, mixed media, dimensions variable, tallest 105cm, courtesy Caruana & Reid Fine Art ix
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