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  • 5 - Anti-Colonial Affinities

  • Jonathan Saha, Durham University
  • Book:
    Colonizing Animals
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 129-157

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the anti-colonial deployment of animals as figures within counter-hegemonic discourses of reformed Buddhist practice and aspirational Burmese nationalism. The chapter first analyzes the long-running gossip column of the nationalist Burmese-language newspaper The Sun that was authored under the pen name ‘Town Mouse’. It then looks at the more eclectic writings of the anti-colonial poet and journalist Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing, particularly his texts on primates.

  • 6 - Revolting Creatures

  • Jonathan Saha, Durham University
  • Book:
    Colonizing Animals
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 158-184

  • Summary

    In this chapter I focus on interspecies relationship in moments of open insurrection and disorder. It first applies an animal lens to the history of the Hsaya San rebellion which swept across the colony at the end of 1930 and took more than a year and in excess of 10,000 troops to suppress. It then explores the shifting material and symbolic place of animals in the colonial order as Rangoon fell to the Japanese in 1942, focussing particularly on the zoo.