UID:
almahu_9949301598802882
Format:
VIII, 279 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030989156
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,
Content:
Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.
Note:
1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030989149
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030989163
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030989170
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-98915-6
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98915-6
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