Creatural fictions
Subtitle: human-animal relationships in twentieth and twenty-first century literature
By: edited by David Herman
Series: Palgrave studies in animals and literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781137520661
Subjects: Human-animal relationships in literature; Animals and civilization; Animals in literature; Modern Literature; History and criticism
Other titles: Human-animal relationships in twentieth and twenty-first century literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Literature beyond the human" / David Herman; title: Literary modernisms, animal worlds, and trans-species entanglements. "Kafka's animal stories: modernist form and inter-species narrative" / Marianne Dekoven;  "The tortured animals of modernity: animal studies and Italian literature" / Damiano Benvegnù; "The black sheep: Djuna Barnes's dark pastoral" / Andrew Kalaidjian; title: Literature beyond the human I: species, sexuality, and gender. "'Becoming men' and animal sacrifice: contemporary literary examples" / Josephine Donovan; "A tail for two theorists: the problem of the female monster in Katherine Dunn's Geek love" / Rajesh K. Reddy;  "Friendship; or, representing more-than-human subjectivities and spaces in J. R. Ackerley's My dog tulip" / Shun Yin Kiang; title: Literature beyond the human II: human-animal interactions across genres. "'A little wildness': negotiating relationships between human and nonhuman in historical romance" / Christy Tidwell; "Animal worlds and anthropological machines in Yann Martel's millennial novel Life of pi" / Hilary Thompson; "'Like words printed on skin': desire, animal masks, and multispecies relationships in Monique Truong's The book of salt" / Nandini Thiyagarajan; title: Human-animal entanglements in late-20th- and early-21st-century fiction. "Horsescapes: space, nation, and human-horse relations in Jane Smiley's Horse heaven" / Jopi Nyman; "Animal others, other people: exploring cetacean personhood in Zakes Mda's The whale caller" / Craig Smith; "Ghostly presences: tracing the animal in Julia Leigh's The hunter" / Roman Bartosch.