Abstract
ABSTRACTIntellectual convergences between postcolonial studies, ethnicity studies and human–animal studies (HAS) hold the potential to go beyond “traditional” models of rehumanizing a formerly “inhuman” non-white subject. This article teases 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 “animalistic” 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, it then turns to New Zealand author Susan Brocker’s 2010 novel Dreams of Warriors to enquire how contemporary authors might reverse this ideological trend.
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