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This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects
of veganism offer to critical theory. Bringing together leading and
emerging scholars working in animal studies and critical animal
studies, Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture shows how the
experience of being vegan, and the conditions of thought fostered
by veganism, pose new questions for work across multiple
disciplines. Offering accounts of veganism which move beyond
contemporary conceptualizations of it as a faddish dietary
preference or set of proscriptions, it explores the messiness and
necessary contradictions involved in thinking about or practicing a
vegan way of life. By thinking through as well as about veganism,
the project establishes the value of a vegan mode of reading,
writing, looking, and thinking.
This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects
of veganism offer to critical theory. Bringing together leading and
emerging scholars working in animal studies and critical animal
studies, Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture shows how the
experience of being vegan, and the conditions of thought fostered
by veganism, pose new questions for work across multiple
disciplines. Offering accounts of veganism which move beyond
contemporary conceptualizations of it as a faddish dietary
preference or set of proscriptions, it explores the messiness and
necessary contradictions involved in thinking about or practicing a
vegan way of life. By thinking through as well as about veganism,
the project establishes the value of a vegan mode of reading,
writing, looking, and thinking.
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on
the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred
years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters,
veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the
conceptual category of the 'human,' the book explores ways in which
ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted.
Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognise and identify the
monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous
vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly
inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are
hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts,
destabilising existing taxonomical classifications. Third,
monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction,
the product of male acts of creation. And finally, monstrous vegans
are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation.
The principle contention of the book is that understandings of
veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a
consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure, and
insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice.
Veganism's association with positivity, in its drive for health and
purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity
generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world.
Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing
of vegan identity.
Vegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few
years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and
transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history
and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach
literary analysis. Vegan studies has emerged alongside the 'animal
turn' in the humanities. However, while veganism is often
considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is
also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many
scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit
and lived experience. This collection of 25 essays maps and engages
with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary
theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across
a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It
provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and
veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the
philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the
graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an
extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within
the emergent field of vegan studies.
Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration
engages with Ranjan Ghosh’s concept of trans(in)fusion and
critical theory. Trans(in)fusion reexamines critical thinking and
considers how thinking across traditions and systems of thought can
generate distinct interpretive experiences. The chapters not only
analyze Ghosh’s work but provide insight into the authors’
individual positions and critical approaches.
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