Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): Zooliterature, vulnerability, and animal resistance, politics of insurrection

The articles in this issue discuss ontological vulnerability and emphasize the pathogenesis of relationships between human animals and other living animals, while pointing to ways of resistance against the violation of bodies. Pathogenic vulnerability, that is, that which is born from relations of oppression and exploitation, is revealed in tortured, subjected and murdered bodies, as seen in the poetry of Drummond (Guida e Melo) and in the reading of the novel by Ana Paula Maia (Barros ). This last text opens space for a reflection on the anti-capitalist and anti-speciesist struggles and dialogues, therefore, with the analysis of O sofá estampado (Bortoletto and Libanori), in which oppression figures in social poverty and the misery of life for beyond the human. The intersection between different forms of violence also appears in the analysis of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Rodrigues and González) and Contos Gauchescos (Copstein), which reinforce the relationship between modes of oppression such as speciesism, capacitism and sexism. Finally, the questioning of the subject in the texts of Arce, Alkmin, Gonçalves, Melo, Costa and Guimarães reviews the place of animality and enables an understanding of ontological vulnerability as the one that propitiates the encounter between bodies marked by the force of insurrection.