Animalities: Literary And Cultural Studies Beyond The Human
by Michael Lundblad /
2017 / English / EPUB
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New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal
studies, and posthumanism Representations of animality continue to
proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This
pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal
and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to
twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts
considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like,
how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest
Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals
but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being
constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini,
Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do 'animalities' animate
such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the
name of 'Michael Field', or an early film by Thomas Edison
depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy?
Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental
studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist
theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and
biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about
disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work 'beyond
the human' in future interdisciplinary scholarship.
New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal
studies, and posthumanism Representations of animality continue to
proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This
pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal
and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to
twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts
considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like,
how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest
Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals
but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being
constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini,
Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do 'animalities' animate
such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the
name of 'Michael Field', or an early film by Thomas Edison
depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy?
Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental
studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist
theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and
biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about
disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work 'beyond
the human' in future interdisciplinary scholarship.