Animal Alterity

Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Science Fiction University of Toronto Press, 2006) and co-editor of the journal of Science Fiction Film and Television published by Liverpool University Press).

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human–Animal Studies
1. Always-Already Meat: The Human–Animal Boundary and Ethics
2. The Mirror Test: Humans, Animals and Sentience
3. The Animal Responds: Language, Animals and Science Fiction
4. ‘The Female Is Somewhat Duller’: Gender and Animals
5. Sapien Orientalism: Animals, Colonialism, Science Fiction
6. Existing for Their Own Reasons: Animal Aliens
7. A Rope over an Abyss: Humans as Animals
8. The Modern Epimetheus: Animals and/as Technology
Conclusion. ‘Other Fashionings of Life’: Science Fiction, Human–Animal Studies and the Future of Subjectivity
Notes
Works Cited
Index