Animals and agency : an interdisciplinary exploration / / edited by Sarah E. McFarland Ryan Hediger.

• Superior document: Human animal studies, v. 8
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: McFarland, Sarah E.; Hediger, Ryan.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Human-animal studies ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: vii, 382 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Approaching the agency of other animals : an introduction / Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger -- Animals as agents -- Whale agency : affordances and acts of resistance in captive environments / Traci Warkentin -- The racehorse as protagonist : agency, independence, and improvisation / Shelly R. Scott -- Consuming Timothy Treadwell : redefining nonhuman agency in light of Herzog's Grizzly man / David Lulka -- Dancing penguins and a pretentious raccoon : animated animals and 21st century environmentalism / Sarah E. McFarland -- Speaking through animals -- No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe -- Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion -- The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. Clark -- Speaking for animals -- Representing the experimental animal : competing voices in victorian culture / Jed Mayer -- Forms of life : the search for the simian self in ape language experiments / Rebecca Bishop -- Animals, agency, and absence : a discourse analysis of institutional animal care and use committee meetings / Debra Durham and Debra Merskin -- Humanimals and other marginal species -- "To abandon the colonial animal" : "race," animals, and the feral child in Kipling's Mowgli stories / Dipika Nath -- At the top of the hierarchical ladder : were-animals in Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and chocolate and Patrice Kindl's Owl in love / Cat Yampell -- The microgeography of infestation in relationship spaces / Matthew Candelaria -- Crossing over : (dis)ability, contingent agency, and death in the marginal genre work of Temple Grandin and Jim Harrison / Ryan Hediger -- Envoi towards a philosophy of the polyp / Laurence Simmons.