Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 1st Edition David Herman 1137518111 9781137518118

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• ISBN 10: 1137518111
• ISBN 13: 9781137518118
• Author: David Herman

This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals. Written by forward-thinking early-career scholars, as well as established experts in the field, the chapters discuss key texts in the emergent canon of animal narratives, including Franz Kafka’s animal stories, Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller, and others. The volume is divided into four main sections. Two period-focused sections center on modernism and on late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, while two further sections foreground the more general project of theory building in literary animal studies, examining interconnections among concepts of species, sexuality, gender, and genre. The volume also raises issues that extend beyond the academic community, including ethical dimensions of human-animal relationships and the problems of species loss and diminishing biodiversity.

Table of contents:

Part I Literary Modernisms, Animal Worlds, and Trans-species Entanglements

1 Kafka’s Animal Stories: Modernist Form and Interspecies Narrative

2 The Tortured Animals of Modernity: Animal Studies and Italian Literature

3 The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes’s Dark Pastoral

Part II Literature beyond the Human I: Species, Sexuality, and Gender

4 “Becoming Men” and Animal Sacrifice: Contemporary Literary Examples

5 A Tail for Two Theorists: The Problem of the Female Monster in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love

6 Friendship; Or, Representing More-Than-Human Subjectivities and Spaces in J. R. Ackerley’s My Do

Part III Literature beyond the Human II: Human-Animal Interactions across Genres

7 “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romanc

8 Animal Worlds and Anthropological Machines in Yann Martel’s Millennial Novel Life of Pi

9 “Like Words Printed on Skin”: Desire, Animal Masks, and Multispecies Relationships in Monique

Part IV Human-Animal Entanglements in Late-Twentieth- and Early-Twenty-First-Century Fiction

10 Horsescapes: Space, Nation, and Human-Horse Relations in Jane Smiley’s Horse Heaven

11 Animal Others, Other People: Exploring Cetacean Personhood in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller

12 Ghostly Presences: Tracing the Animal in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter

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