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Animal Biography - Re-framing Animal Lives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Animal Biography - Re-framing Animal Lives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to
standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history
proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of
unusual animals. This book introduces animal biography as an
approach to the re-framing of animals as both objects of knowledge
as well as subjects of individual lives. Taking an
interdisciplinary perspective and bringing together scholars from,
among others, literary, historical and cultural studies, the texts
collected in this volume seek to refine animal biography as a
research method and framework to studying, capturing, representing
and acknowledging animal others as individuals. From Heini
Hediger's biting monitor, Hachiko and Murr to celluloid ape Caesar
and the mourning of Topsy's gruesome death, the authors discuss how
animal biographies are discovered and explored through connections
with humans that can be traced in archives, ethological fieldwork
and novels, and probe the means of constructing animal biographies
from taxidermy to film, literature and social media. Thus, they
invite deeper conversations with socio-political and cultural
contexts that allow animal biographies to provide narratives that
reach beyond individual life stories, while experimenting with
particular forms of animal biographies that might trigger animal
activism and concerns for animal well-being, spur historical
interest and enrich the literary imagination.
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