Creatural Fictions - Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals. Written by forward-thinking early-career scholars, as well as established experts in the field, the chapters discuss key texts in the emergent canon of animal narratives, including Franz Kafka's animal stories, Yann Martel's The Life of Pi, Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller, and others. The volume is divided into four main sections. Two period-focused sections center on modernism and on late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, while two further sections foreground the more general project of theory building in literary animal studies, examining interconnections among concepts of species, sexuality, gender, and genre. The volume also raises issues that extend beyond the academic community, including ethical dimensions of human-animal relationships and the problems of species loss and diminishing biodiversity.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	David Herman
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-52066-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
LSN:	1-137-52066-3
Barcode:	9781137520661

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