The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies / / ed. by Laura Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Carol J.,; Borkfelt, Sune,; Brown, Catherine,; Bulleid, Joshua,; Cole, Stewart,; Gray, Amy-Leigh,; Gregory, James,; Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra,; Iyer, Sangamithra,; Kemmerer, Lisa,; Langer, Armin,; Medoro, Dana,; Milburn, Josh,; Miller, John,; Parry, Jovian,; Pergadia, Samantha,; Quinn, Emelia,; Ramsden-Karelse, Ruth,; Rowe, Martin,; Ryland, Ali,; Sebastian, Christopher,; Seymour, Nicole,; Simonsen, Rasmus R.,; Willmott, Glenn,; Wrenn, Corey,; Wright, Laura,
• HerausgeberIn: Wright, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 1 colour illustrations 2 black & white and 1 colour illustration

Provides a scholarly overview of the field of vegan literary studies, traversing the relationship between literature and veganism across a range of periods, cultures, and genresExamines literature, literary history, and literary genres through a vegan studies lensProvides an extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within the emergent field of vegan studiesOffers an invaluable resource for both established scholars and students looking to incorporate vegan literary studies in their own workIncludes cutting edge work from an international group of scholars specializing in literary researchHighlights the work of emerging and established scholars in this growing field of inquiryVegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies has emerged alongside the ‘animal turn’ in the humanities. However, while veganism is often considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience.This collection of 25 essays maps and engages with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within the emergent field of vegan studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Annotated Bibliography -- 1 Veganism and Women’s Writing -- 2 Veganism and Modernism -- 3 Veganism, Utopia, and Science Fiction -- 4 Veganism and Animals -- 5 Veganism and Race “Me luv life”: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poetic Solidarities -- 6 Veganism, Gender, and Queerness: Exploring Trans-Veganism through Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein -- 7 Veganism and Postcolonialism: Dogs without Masters: Astray with Akbar and in André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs -- 8 Veganism and the Monstrous “Not text, but texture”: Pale Fire and Monstrous Vegan Literary Criticism -- 9 Veganism and Disordered Eating: The “Planned Cow” and “No end to Meat”: Veganism and Disordered Eating -- Part II Genres and Forms -- 10 Prose. Dreaming Vegan: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian -- 11 Poetry -- 12 The Graphic Novel: Understanding Comics in a Crisis of Entanglement -- 13 Adaptation: No one mourns the Wicked, but we should -- 14 The Philosophical Essay -- 15 The Exposé. Through a Vegan Lens: The Challenges and Ethics of Exposé -- 16 Realism -- 17 The Memoir. Black Female Vegans on Decolonizing the Body and Mind: A. Breeze Harper’s Sistah Vegan Project -- 18 Young Adult Fiction -- 19 Satire. The (Im)possibilities of Vegan Satire -- 20 Utopian Fiction -- 21 Speculative Fiction: Vegan Cannibals from Outer Space: Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy -- Part III Textual Histories and Contexts -- 22 Ancient Scripture: Ancient Sacred Writings and Anymal Liberation -- 23 Long Nineteenth Century Ephemera -- 24 Society Writings -- 25 Modern Literary Production: Veganism and the Contemporary Book Industry -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Plate