Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose
endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory,
"Animal Stories" argues that key creative developments in narrative
form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science
in the past century. Susan McHugh traces representational patterns
specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species
companionship through a variety of media--including novels, films,
fine art, television shows, and digital games--to show how nothing
less than the futures of all species life is at stake in narrative
forms.
McHugh's investigations into fictions of people relying on animals
in civic and professional life--most obviously those of service
animal users and female professional horse riders--showcase
distinctly modern and human-animal forms of intersubjectivity. But
increasingly graphic violence directed at these figures indicates
their ambivalent significance to changing configurations of
species.
Reading these developments with narrative adaptations of
traditional companion species relations during this period-- queer
pet memoirs and farm animal fictions--McHugh clarifies the
intercorporeal intimacies--the perforations of species boundaries
now proliferating in genetic and genomic science--and embeds the
representation of animals within biopolitical frameworks.
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