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v. 4 n. 1 (2022)

At the London Zoo: Performing Animals in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day and "The Sun and the Fish"

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22456/2596-0911.125836
Enviado
July 14, 2022
Publicado
2022-10-05

Resumo

Virginia Woolf grew up going to the London Zoo. It is hardly a surprise that representations of zoo animals appear frequently in her art. In her novel Night and Day (1919), it functions as one of the stages on which two would-be couples spend a Sunday afternoon, and in her essay, “The Sun and the Fish” (1928), it is the second of two travel destinations. I first contextualize the zoo as a site for animal performance. I next examine Woolf’s characterizations of it as a stage, the cast of nonhuman animals who feature on it, and the human animals who come to watch the spectacle. While Night and Day centers on human-animal interactions, the final part of “The Sun and the Fish” focuses on the animals themselves.

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