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Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals

Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals

O'Key, Dominic

Hardcover

Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1350189626
ISBN13: 9781350189621
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 13 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of literature in responding to this war against animals? How might literary criticism read for animals?

In Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature, Dominic O'Key develops the bold argument that deep attention to literary form enables us to rethink human-animal relations. Through chapters on W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, as well as close readings of works by Arundhati Roy and Richard Powers, O'Key reveals how literary forms can unsettle the fictions of human supremacy and craft alternative, creaturely forms of relation.

An intervention into both the humanism of literary theory and the representational focus of animal studies, this provocative work makes the case for a new formalism in light of our obligation to fellow creatures.

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