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Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human

Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human

Lundblad, Michael

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474400027
ISBN13: 9781474400022
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 29 2017
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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