Love in a Time of Slaughters : : Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction / / Susan McHugh.

Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of man-made threats to species survival.From ind...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: When Species Meet on Killing Fields
  • 1. Dying Animal Gods: Metaphysical Potentials
  • 2. Taxidermy Remains: On the Vitality of Lifeless Bodies
  • 3. Pacific Currents: Becoming Usefully Dead
  • 4. Saharan Nonexistence: Edging near Death Camps
  • 5. Arctic Nomadology: Inuit Stories of the Mountie Sled Dog Massacre
  • 6. The Birds and the Bees, or Life After Sex
  • Conclusion: Taking and Making Love Stories
  • Notes
  • Index