"A Race of Wolves"

Marie de France, La Fontaine, Hobbes, Derrida, and other figurations; werewolf trials, fairy tales, Angela Carter and postmodern wolf-human mergers such as those in the Stephenie Meyers "Twilight" series--"wolf" is everywhere in the Western imagination, from moral fables to political allegories to juridical encounters and the queerness of transpecies becomings. Her interest in wolves, and wolves and humans, emerges from my work on the genealogy of the cynanthrope, the merger of dog and man. Here, Freccero examines how, where, and why do wolves signify, and what are the material histories, cultures, and encounters that make lupine figures ubiquitous in human oral and scriptural cultures.