The Edinburgh companion to vegan literary studies /
Vegan literary studies has been crystalized over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies have emerged...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
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| Summary: | Vegan literary studies has been crystalized over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies have emerged alongside the 'animal turn' in the humanities. However, while veganism is often considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. This collection of 25 essays maps and engages with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an extensive annotated bibliography summarizing existing work within the emergent field of vegan studies. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 376 pages, [1] page of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474493319 9781474493314 |