Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory

ISBN-13: 9783319733791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 286 str.

Emelia Quinn; Ben Westwood

Opis

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars working in animal studies and critical animal studies, Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture shows how the experience of being vegan, and the conditions of thought fostered by veganism, pose new questions for work across multiple disciplines.

Spis treści

​Introduction: Thinking Through Veganism 

Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood

Part I Politics 

Vegans in the Interregnum: The Cultural Moment

of an Enmeshed Theory 

Laura Wright

Part II Visual Culture 

Remnants: The Witness and the Animal 

Sara Salih

The Vegan Viewer in the Circum-Polar World; Or, J. H.

Wheldon’s The Diana and Chase in the Arctic (1857) 

Jason Edwards

Trojan Horses 

Tom Tyler

Contents

Vegan Cinema 

Anat Pick

Part III Literature 

Monstrous Vegan Narratives: Margaret Atwood’s

Hideous Progeny 

Emelia Quinn

On Refusal 

Benjamin Westwood

The Unpacking Plant: Gleaning the Lexicons of Lean Culture 

Natalie Joelle

Part IV Definitions 

Ethical Veganism as Protected Identity: Constructing

a Creed Under Human Rights Law 

Allison Covey

A Vegan Form of Life 

Robert McKay

Conclusion 

Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood

Index 

O autorze

Emelia Quinn is a DPhil candidate and Wolfson Foundation scholar in the Faculty of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, UK. Her thesis establishes a transhistorical and transnational trajectory of literary veganisms, from the early nineteenth century to the present. She has previously published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Society & Animals, with research interests across veganism, animal studies, and queer theory.

Benjamin Westwood is Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, UK, and is finishing a thesis on animals and the intersections of classification and literary form in Victorian literature. He recently contributed an essay to an edited collection, Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet (2017), and has an essay on “Edward Lear’s Dancing Lines” forthcoming in Essays in Criticism.