So clearly, I am going to burn in hell. I have had many, many messages and calls of concern (and congratulations) regarding my pregnancy. Fortunately, I am not pregnant. Nor am I entertaining the idea. But that fact did little to deter me in the maternity section of a going-out-of-business sale at a baby store.

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I realize I have been incommunicado lately. It is not that I don’t have topics to blog about, because I do - a notepad full even. It is only that I don’t like to blog spastically, and with school this past semester and now this summer (session one only, thank God) I have not had the time to develop, rather obviously, a well-thought-out post.

Exhibit A.

Nonetheless, I thought I should update the ‘ol blog with good intentions, the road to hell and all that…

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 “It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. –J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

Concerned as it is with the historical and contemporary experience of formerly European colonies, postcolonial studies have shown little interest in the effects of such controlling power on non-human animals. In identifying the political, sociological, and economic impact of “Western” imperialistic pursuits upon non-European “others,” post-colonialism has concentrated almost singularly on “other” humans. The cost of European territorial conquest and the discursive operations of empire however, were not borne solely by human beings, but arguably, by non-human animals as well. Indeed, the colonial legacy of empire is undoubtedly responsible for the construction of what is essentially, a non-human animal subaltern.

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