Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism

ISBN-13: 9781948908108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Laura Wright

Spis treści

• Doing Vegan Studies: An Introduction vii Laura Wright
• Part I: Vegan Studies, Expanding Ecocriticism(s) 1
• Chapter 1: Vegans in Locavore Literature  3 Kathryn Kirkpatrick
• Chapter 2: The New Environmental Literature: Perspectives of a Vegan Publisher  19 John Yunker
• Chapter 3: How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Vegan Studies and Cognitive Ecocriticism 31 Alexa Weik von Mossner
• Part II: Vegan Studies in the United States 51
• Chapter 4: The Sexual Politics of Meat in the Trump Era 53 Carol J. Adams
• Chapter 5: A Vegan Rhetorical Approach to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle 75 Ryan Phillips
• Chapter 6: Soylent Veganism: A Meditation on Cannibalism, Consumerism, and Veg Politics 93 Thomas J. Hertweck
• Chapter 7: Scarecrow Veganism: The Straw Man of Buddhist Vegan Identity in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker and Jonathan Franzen’s Purity 111 Christopher Kocela
• Part III: Vegan Studies Beyond the West 133
• Chapter 8: South Africa “My Culture in a Tupperware”: Situational Ethics in Zoë Wicomb’s October 135 Caitlin E. Stobie
• Chapter 9: Estonia
• The Rise of Veganism in Post-Socialist Europe: Making Sense of Emergent Vegan Practices and Identities in Estonia 151 Kadri Aavik
• Chapter 10: South Korea Looking at the Vegetarian Body: Narrative Points of View and Blind Spots in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian 171 Margarita Carretero-González
• Chapter 11: Nonviolence through Veganism: An Anti-Racist Postcolonial Strategy for Healing, Agency, and Respect 187 Shanti Chu
• Part IV: Hypocrites and Hipsters; Meat and Meatlessness 209
• Chapter 12: H is for Hypocrite: Reading “New Nature Writing” Through the Lens of Vegan Theory 211 Alex Lockwood
• Chapter 13: The Best Little Slaughterhouse in Portland: Hipsters and the Rhetoric of Meat 229 D. Gilson
• Chapter 14: Meatless Mondays?: A Vegan Studies Approach to Resistance in the College Classroom 247 Natalie M. Dorfeld
• Conclusion 265 Laura Wright
• About the Editor and Contributors 279