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This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary
and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises
of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal
presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on
literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed
interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such
as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select
texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and
demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of
thinking about animals. By implicating the "animal turn" in the
field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to
problematize the separation of the human from other animals and
rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of
select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory,
inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species'
difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book
constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics
of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays
in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore
a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics.
Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international
contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation
over Species Hierarchy and CategorizationAnimal
(Re)constructionsInterspecies RelationalitiesIntersectionality-
Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students
and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental
Studies.
This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary
and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises
of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal
presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on
literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed
interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such
as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select
texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and
demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of
thinking about animals. By implicating the "animal turn" in the
field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to
problematize the separation of the human from other animals and
rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of
select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory,
inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species'
difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book
constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics
of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays
in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore
a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics.
Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international
contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation
over Species Hierarchy and CategorizationAnimal
(Re)constructionsInterspecies RelationalitiesIntersectionality-
Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students
and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental
Studies.
This volume focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene,
sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality,
and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. The
work examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and
environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural,
political, social, and linguistic borders. The volume demonstrates
how, as the environmental humanities developed and emerged as a
critical discipline, it generated a diverse range of
interdisciplinary fields of study, such as ecographics, ecodesign,
ecocinema, ecotheology, ecofeminism, ethnobotany, ecolinguistics
and bioregionalism, and formed valuable, interdisciplinary networks
of critique and advocacy-and its contemporary expansion is
exceptionally salient to social, political, and public issues
today.
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