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  title info:
    title: Reading veganism
    sub title: the monstrous vegan, 1818 to present
  name:
    name part: Quinn, Emelia
    name part: 1992-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the 'human,' the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify the monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts, destabilizing existing taxonomical classifications. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation. The principle contention of the book is that understandings of veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure and insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice. Veganism's association with positivity, in its drive for health and purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world. Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing of vegan identity.
  table of contents: Introduction: The monstrous vegan -- Mary Shelley and the conception of the monstrous vegan -- H.G. Wells and monstrous vegan desires -- Margaret Atwood and monstrous vegan words -- J.M. Coetzee and monstrous vegan performativity -- Alan Hollinghurst and monstrous vegan camp.
  note: Emelia Quinn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-182) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Veganism
  subject:
    topic: Food habits in literature
  subject:
    topic: Food habits
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Ethics in literature
  classification: PR468.F66 Q56 2021
  classification: 820.9355
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford English monographs
  identifier: 9780192843494
  identifier: 0192843494
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210313
    record change date: 20220506141405.9
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