Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human

ISBN-13: 9781474441292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Michael Lundblad

Opis

This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.

Spis treści

Introduction: The End of the Animal: Literary and Cultural Animalities, Michael Lundblad; 1. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction, Cary Wolfe; 2. Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene, Neel Ahuja; 3. J. G. Ballard’s Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary Tropes, Frida Beckman; 4. Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling, Sara Orning; 5. ‘Sparks Would Fly’: Electricity and the Spectacle of Animality, Anat Pick; 6. The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge and When Women Were Birds, Michael Lundblad; 7. Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai; 8. Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture, Karen Lykke Syse; 9. Whym Chow, the ‘Michael Fields,’ and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal Bonds, Colleen Glenney Boggs; 10. Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature, Greg Garrard.