Abstract
This chapter considers the different desires that occur in the relationships between the eponymous protagonist of Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005), Saluni, 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. The chapter contends that the novel’s contribution to ecocritical thought is its insistence on positing non-human desire as a mode of resistance to neocolonial capitalist violence. Through a reading of Mda’s novel, it argues that an affective politics holds more promise than a rights approach to addressing the plight of humans, animals, and the environment in South Africa.
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