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Animal Biographies - Toward a History of Individuals (Paperback)
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Animal Biographies - Toward a History of Individuals (Paperback)
Series: Animal Voices / Animal Worlds
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What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric
Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France,
applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to
some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most interesting
animals. He offers brief yet innovative accounts of these animals'
lives in a way that challenges the reader's thinking about animals.
Baratay illustrates the need to develop a nonanthropocentric means
of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in
the narrative of their lives. Animal Biographies launches an
all-new investigation into the lives of animals and is a major
contribution to the field of animal studies. This English
translation of Eric Baratay's Biographies animales: Des Vies
retrouvees, originally published in France in 2017 (Editions du
Seuil), uses firsthand accounts starting from the nineteenth
century about specific animals who lived in Europe and the United
States to reconstruct, as best as possible, their stories as they
would have experienced them. History is, after all, not just the
domain of humans. Animals have their own. Baratay breaks the model
of human exceptionalism to give us the biographies of some of
history and literature's most famous animals. The reader will catch
a glimpse of storied lives as told by Modestine, the donkey who
carried Robert Louis Stevenson through the Alps; Warrior, the World
War I horse made famous in Steven Spielberg's War Horse; Islero,
the bull who gored Spain's greatest bullfighter; and others.
Through these stories we discover their histories, their
personalities, and their shared experiences with others of their
species.
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