Animalities : literary and cultural studies beyond the human / edited by Michael Lundblad.

Representations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts consider...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Lundblad, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the end of the animal : literary and cultural animalities / Michael Lundblad
  • Each time unique : the poetics of extinction / Cary Wolfe
  • Posthuman New York : ground zero of the anthropocene / Neel Ahuja
  • J.G. Ballard's Dark Ecologies : unsettling nature, animals, and literary tropes / Frida Beckman
  • Staging humanimality : Patricia Piccinini and a genealogy of species intermingling / Sara E.S. Orning
  • "Sparks would fly" : electricity and the spectacle of animality / Anat Pick
  • The nature of birds, women, and cancer : Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and When Women Were Birds / Michael Lundblad
  • Animality, biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide / Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai
  • Looking the beast in the eye : re-animating meat in Nordic and British food culture / Karen Lykke Syse
  • Love triangle with dog : Whym Chow, the "Michael Fields," and the poetic potential of human-animal bonds / Colleen Glenney Boggs
  • Bestial humans and sexual animals : zoophilia in law and literature / Greg Garrard.