Franz Kafka, autobiographical animal: colonization and subjectivity in "A report to an Academy"

Abstract

Taking as a starting point the connection between autobiography and animality, Franz Kafka's narrative A Report to an Academy will be analyzed in order to explore the reverberations between the animal experience and colonial exploitations, while also paying attention to the various subjective effects that result in the silencing and constraints generated in the wake of this process. Thus, from the disruptions created by Kafka through giving voice to a monkey in his fictional endeavor, we observe how colonial subjectivity is expressed, speculating on the possible cracks attempted in the gesture of decentering anthropocentric speech.