Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals [electronic resource] / edited by Krishanu Maiti.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Issues in Literature and CulturePublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021Description: XIII, 188 p. 1 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783030761592
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 370 23
LOC classification:
  • L1-991
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Contents:
1. Zoohistoricism: Literary animals as codes in history and culture -- 2. Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals? -- 3. Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-Human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies -- 4. Reassessing Predatory Animals in Literary Journalism: A Look at John Vaillant’s The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee’s The Wolf -- 5.The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith’s The Egoist -- 6. Deconstructing the Human-Animal Hierarchy at the End of the World: Readings in Literary Representation of Apocalypse -- 7. The Snake Has A Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-Human Animal -- 8. Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric. .
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics. Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation over Species Hierarchy and Categorization Animal (Re)constructions Interspecies Relationalities Intersectionality- Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Studies. .
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1. Zoohistoricism: Literary animals as codes in history and culture -- 2. Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals? -- 3. Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-Human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies -- 4. Reassessing Predatory Animals in Literary Journalism: A Look at John Vaillant’s The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee’s The Wolf -- 5.The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith’s The Egoist -- 6. Deconstructing the Human-Animal Hierarchy at the End of the World: Readings in Literary Representation of Apocalypse -- 7. The Snake Has A Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-Human Animal -- 8. Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric. .

This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics. Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation over Species Hierarchy and Categorization Animal (Re)constructions Interspecies Relationalities Intersectionality- Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Studies. .

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