This talk considers three anti/postcolonial texts—Manto’s “The Dog of Tetwal,†Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth†and Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiersâ€â€”from the standpoint of animalities. Focusing on a dog’s tail’s capacity to signify in Manto’s text, the essay argues that the establishment of ethical relations between human and animal are predicated on the ways through which humans anthropocentrically attribute meani
