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9781474441292: Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474441297 ISBN 13: 9781474441292
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism

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Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012).

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*APPROVED*New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, art, and filmRepresentations 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 terrain in relation to twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, art and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions such as how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman and Michael Pestel? How do ‘animalities’ animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of ‘Michael Field’, or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work ‘beyond the human’ in future interdisciplinary scholarship.Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (2012).

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*APPROVED*New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, art, and filmRepresentations 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 terrain in relation to twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, art and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions such as how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman and Michael Pestel? How do animalities animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of Michael Field , or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work beyond the human in future interdisciplinary scholarship.Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (2012).

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474441297
ISBN 13 
9781474441292
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Herausgeber
Lundblad Michael
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