An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-Than-Human World

ISBN-13: 9783837645668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 340 str.

Spengler, Birgit

Opis

The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more "response-able" coexistence on our shared Earth.

Recenzje

»Das ist ein Sammelband, der es in sich hat: Wahrscheinlich keine leichte Lektüre zum schnellen Überfliegen, aber dennoch sehr empfehlenswert.« Ulrike Schwerdtner, http://tierbefreiungsarchiv.de, 8 (2020) »Der Band besticht durch seine beeindruckende Bebilderung.« Kochen ohne Knochen, 38/1 (2020)

O autorze

Spengler, BirgitBirgit Spengler is Professor of American Literature at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She is the author of two books, Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, 1860-1900 (2008) and Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community (2015). Her research focuses, among other things, on articulations of states of exception, bare life, and precarious being in contemporary American literature and other cultural media.