Captured: The Animal within Culture

225 Pages·2013·5.768 MB·English

by  Melissa Boyde

Captured: The Animal Within Culture
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Captured: The Animal
Within Culture
Edited by
Melissa Boyde
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
University of Wollongong, Australia
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Melissa Boyde 2014
Remaining chapters © Contributors 2014
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First published 2014 by
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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
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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
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List of Plates
(between pp 74–75)
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
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