Writing Animals [electronic resource] : Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction / by Timothy C. Baker.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9783030038809
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/5733
Yazar
Baker, Timothy C.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2019.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VII, 239 p. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, 2634-6346
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction: Literary Animals -- 2. The Ape Speaks: Rereading Red Peter in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Ladies into Foxes: Narratives of Transformation -- 4. The Dying Animal -- 5. The Dying Animals: Anthropocene Stories -- 6. Look! A Squirrel!: Animals Writing.
Özet, vb.
This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.
Konu
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Literature, Modern __ 21st century.
Animal welfare __ Moral and ethical aspects.
Contemporary Literature.
Animal Ethics.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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