This essay offers a Deleuzean reading of desire in the relationship between the eponymous protagonist of Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005) and a whale named Sharisha. In the setting of a highly stratified ecotourist village in South Africa where most characters relate to marine animals only through consumption and capitalization, the human-whale relationship between the protagonist and Sharisha offers a different mode of comportment. While some Animal Studies scholars read the novel as evidence of animal subjectivity and call for a recognition of animal rights in South African law, this essay contends that the novel’s more significant contribution to ecocritical thought is its insistence on positing nonhuman desire as a mode of resistance to neocolonial capitalist violence. The essay also engages this discussion of nonhuman desire as resistance with postcolonial critiques of both resistance literature and posthuman accounts of subjectivity.

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欲望的方式：Zakes Mda 的 The Whale Caller 中的后殖民影响

这篇文章提供了德勒兹对 Zakes Mda 的同名主角 The Whale Caller (2005) 与一头名叫 Sharisha 的鲸鱼之间关系的欲望解读。在南非高度分层的生态旅游村的背景下，大多数角色仅通过消费和资本化与海洋动物相关，主角和莎莉莎之间的人鲸关系提供了一种不同的行为方式。虽然一些动物研究学者将这部小说视为动物主体性的证据，并呼吁在南非法律中承认动物权利，但本文认为小说对生态批判思想更重要的贡献是它坚持将非人类欲望作为一种抵抗模式。新殖民主义的资本主义暴力。