Writing Animals - Timothy C. Baker

Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Buch | Hardcover
VII, 239 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-03879-3 (ISBN)
90,94 inkl. MwSt
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, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

Timothy C. Baker is Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009) and Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014).

1. Introduction: Literary Animals.- 2. The Ape Speaks: Rereading Red Peter in the Twenty-First Century.- 3. Ladies into Foxes: Narratives of Transformation.- 4. The Dying Animal.- 5. The Dying Animals: Anthropocene Stories.- 6. Look! A Squirrel!: Animals Writing.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Zusatzinfo VII, 239 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 452 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Veterinärmedizin
Schlagworte anthropocentric • Contemporary fiction • Continental Philosophy • human-animal relations • Interspecies relations • J.M. Coetzee • Nonhuman
ISBN-10 3-030-03879-3 / 3030038793
ISBN-13 978-3-030-03879-3 / 9783030038793
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