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“We licked the dictionary off each other’s faces” : Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal: A Project for Future Children
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“We licked the dictionary off each other’s faces” : Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal: A Project for Future Children

ByJohn Rufo

What’s wrong with being raised by wolves? In Humanimal: A Project for Future Childen, Bhanu Kapil investigates “the true story of Kamala and Amala, two girls found living with wolves in Bengal, India, in 1920” (ix). But unlike a crowd drawn to witness a re-enactment, Kapil’s book instead involves “trying to see it” (17) and…