Animal Writing - Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy (Paperback)

Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Crosscurrents
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Danielle Sands
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-3904-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Promotions
LSN:	1-4744-3904-7
Barcode:	9781474439046

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