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

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Superior document:Human animal studies, v. 8
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Human-animal studies ; v. 8.
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Physical Description:vii, 382 p. :; ill.
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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.