Creatural fictions : human-animal relationships in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature /
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Literature beyond the human / David Herman
- Literary modernisms, animal worlds, and trans-species entanglements. "Kafka's animal stories: modernist form and inter-species narrative" / Marianne Dekoven; "The tortured animals of modernity: animal studies and Italian literature" / Damiano Benvegnù; "The black sheep: Djuna Barnes's dark pastoral" / Andrew Kalaidjian
- Literature beyond the human I: species, sexuality, and gender. "'Becoming men' and animal sacrifice: contemporary literary examples" / Josephine Donovan; "A tail for two theorists: the problem of the female monster in Katherine Dunn's Geek love" / Rajesh K. Reddy; "Friendship; or, representing more-than-human subjectivities and spaces in J.R. Ackerley's My dog tulip" / Shun Yin Kiang
- Literature beyond the human II: human-animal interactions across genres. "'A little wildness': negotiating relationships between human and nonhuman in historical romance" / Christy Tidwell; "Animal worlds and anthropological machines in Yann Martel's millennial novel Life of pi" / Hilary Thompson; "'Like words printed on skin': desire, animal masks, and multispecies relationships in Monique Truong's The book of salt" / Nandini Thiyagarajan
- Human-animal entanglements in late-20th- and early-21st-century fiction. "Horsescapes: space, nation, and human-horse relations in Jane Smiley's Horse heaven" / Jopi Nyman; "Animal others, other people: exploring cetacean personhood in Zakes Mda's The whale caller" / Craig Smith; "Ghostly presences: tracing the animal in Julia Leigh's The hunter" / Roman Bartosch.