Animalities : : Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human / / Michael Lundblad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Lundblad, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Ahuja, Neel,; Beckman, Frida,; Chen-Hsing Tsai, Robin,; Garrard, Greg,; Glenney Boggs, Colleen,; Lundblad, Michael,; Lykke Syse, Karen,; Orning, Sara E. S.,; Pick, Anat,; Wolfe, Cary,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 19 colour illustrations

New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the ter...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The End of the Animal – Literary and Cultural Animalities
• 1. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction
• 2. Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene
• 3. J. G. Ballard’s Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary Tropes
• 4. Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling
• 5. “Sparks Would Fly”: Electricity and the Spectacle of Animality
• 6. The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge and When Women Were Birds
• 7. Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh’s
• 8. Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture
• 9. Love Triangle with Dog: Whym Chow, the “Michael Fields,” and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal Bonds
• 10. Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature
• Notes on Contributors
• Index