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The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor
does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book
shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable
attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories
and technologies of listening that shape twenty-first-century
cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels
illuminate the cultural meanings we attach to creatures like dogs,
frogs, whales, chimpanzees, and Tasmanian tigers - not to mention
various bird species and even plants. At the same time, these
stories explore the attitudes of distinct communities of human
listeners, ranging from vets and musicians to chimp caretakers and
sonar technicians. In highlighting animal sounds and their cultural
meanings, these novels by authors including Amitav Ghosh, Julia
Leigh, Richard Powers, Karen Joy Fowler, Cormac McCarthy, and Han
Kang also enrich pressing debates about species extinction, sound
pollution, nonhuman communication, and human-animal relations. As
we are violently reshaping the planet, they invite us to reimagine
our own humanity and animality - and to rethink how we tell stories
about multispecies contact zones and their complex soundscapes.
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