The Cost of Human Exceptionalism

Review of Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

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  • Boria Sax

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9989

Abstract

Pamela Newkirk. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. 336 pp. $14.84 hc.

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Author Biography

Boria Sax

Boria Sax is the author of many books, most recently Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human (2013) and Stealing Fire: Memoir of a Childhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage (2014). He teaches at Sing Sing and Taconic prisons, as well as online for the graduate program in Literature at Mercy College.

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Published

2015-10-05

How to Cite

Sax, Boria. 2015. “The Cost of Human Exceptionalism: Review of Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga”. Humanimalia 7 (1):148-54. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9989.

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