Writing animals : language, suffering, and animality in twenty-first-century fiction /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baker, Timothy C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:	Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
Subjects:	Human-animal relationships in literature. Animals in literature. Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism. Fiction > 21st century. Suffering in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Literary animals
The ape speaks: rereading Red Peter in the twenty-first century
Ladies into foxes: narratives of transformation
The dying animal
The dying animals: Anthropocene stories
Look! A squirrel!: Animals writing.