Animalities : literary and cultural studies beyond the human /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals in motion pictures.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Animals in literature.
Animals in motion pictures.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11759117
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Other authors / contributors:Lundblad, Michael, editor.
ISBN:9781474400039
1474400035
9781474423960
1474423965
9781474434584
1474434584
9781474400022
1474400027
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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 considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do 'animalities' animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of 'Michael Field', or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work 'beyond the human' in future interdisciplinary scholarship. New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism. 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 considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do ÃǾ²Ơ℗animalities' animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋Michael Field', or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋beyond the human' in future interdisciplinary scholarship. Key Features. 10 provocative case studies focused on representations and discourses of animals and animality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and film in English New work from both internationally renowned and emerging figures in the burgeoning fields of animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism, suggesting innovative and significant new directions to explore Broad introduction to the kinds of questions scholars in the humanities have considered in relation to animals and animality
Other form:Print version: Animalities. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017] 9781474400022