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Intellectual convergences between postcolonial studies, ethnicity studies and human–animal studies (HAS) hold the potential to go beyond 鈥渢raditional鈥� models of rehumanizing a formerly 鈥渋nhuman鈥� non-white subject. This talk will tease out the ways in which historical constructions of race and the non-human animal mutually inform one another, paying particular attention to how horses and the ethnic Other, through real-life or narrative associations between them, can enable a white majority culture to reconsider its objectification of the ethnic Other. Taking the 鈥渁nimalistic鈥� representations of Japanese in the Allied propaganda of World War II as a salient example of how the non-human animal is often used to vilify an ethnic Other, I shall then turn to New Zealand author Susan Brocker鈥檚 2010 novel Dreams of Warriors to enquire how contemporary authors might reverse this ideological trend.

Dr Daniel McKay, an associate professor at Doshisha University in Japan, is an American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and War Studies scholar. His research consistently examines the ways in which twentieth and twenty-first century fiction writers construct marginal narratives of national (un)belonging within/against Anglophone literary traditions.