Speaking for animals
Subtitle: animal autobiographical writing
By: edited by Margo DeMello
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 80
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Social aspects; Animals in literature; Animals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: (mis) representing animal s: the limits and possibilities of representation; title: What do we want from talking animals? : reflections on literary representations of animal voices and minds / Karla Armbruster; title: Our animals, ourselves : representing animal minds in Timothy and the White Bone / Ryan Hediger; title: Investigations of a dog, by a dog : between anthropocentrism and canine-centrism / Naama Harel; title: Animals in human traditions; title: With dogs and lions as witnesses : speaking animals in the history of Christianity / Laura Hobgood-Oster; title: The speaking animal : non-human voices in comics / Lisa Brown; title: Who'll let the dogs in? : animals, authorship, and the library catalog / Nancy Babb; title: Animal self, human self; title: Mistresses as masters : voicing female power through the subject animal in two nineteenth-century animal autobiographies / Monica Flegel; title: Catster.com : creating feline identities online / Jennifer L. Schally and Stephen R. Couch; title: Identity, community and grief : the role of bunspace in human and rabbit lives / Margo DeMello; title: Interspecies communication and connection; title: Talking dogs, companion capital, and the limits of bio-political fitness / Merit Anglin; title: If we could talk to the animals : on changing the (post) human subject / Kathy Rudy; title: Speaking and knowing: accessing animal subjectivity; title: The power of testimony : the speaking animal's plea for understanding in a selection of eighteenth-century British poetry / Anne Milne; title: "Straight from the horse's mouth" : equine memoirs and autobiographies / Marion Copeland; title: First friend, first words : speaking of/to talking dogs / Jill Morstad; title: The ethics and value of speaking for animals; title: Horse talk : horses and human(e) discourses / Natalie Corinne Hansen; title: Speaking for dogs : the role of dog biographies in improving canine welfare in Bangkok, thailand / Nikki Savvides; title: The elephant letters : the story of Billy and Kani / G.A. Bradshaw; title: Contributors.