Format:
1 online resource (280 pages)
ISBN:
9781136200670
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Content:
For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their own autobiographies. Animals speak, famously, in children's stories and in cartoons and films, and today, social networking sites and blogs are both sites in which animals-primarily pets-write about their daily lives and interests. Speaking for Animals is a compilation of chapters written from a variety of disciplines that attempts to get a handle on this cross cultural and longstanding tradition of animal speaking and writing. It looks at speaking animals in literature, religious texts, poetry, social networking sites, comic books, and in animal welfare materials and even library catalogs, and addresses not just the "whys" of speaking animals, but the implications, for the animals and for ourselves.
Content:
Cover -- Speaking for Animals -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- PART I (Mis) Representing Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Representation -- 1 What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds -- 2 Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone -- 3 Investigations of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentrism and Canine-Centrism -- PART II Animals in Human Traditions -- 4 With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity -- 5 The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics -- 6 Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog -- PART III Animal Self, Human Self -- 7 Mistresses as Masters: Voicing Female Power Through the Subject Animal in Two Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies -- 8 Catster.com: Creating Feline Identities Online -- 9 Identity, Community, and Grief: The Role of Bunspace in Human and Rabbit Lives -- PART IV Interspecies Communication and Connection -- 10 Talking Dogs, Companion Capital, and the Limits of Bio-Political Fitness -- 11 If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human Subject -- PART V Speaking and Knowing: Accessing Animal Subjectivity -- 12 The Power of Testimony: The Speaking Animal's Plea for Understanding in a Selection of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry -- 13 "Straight from the Horse's Mouth": Equine Memoirs and Autobiographies -- 14 First Friend, First Words: Speaking of/to Talking Dogs -- PART VI The Ethics and Value of Speaking for Animals -- 15 Horse Talk: Horses and Human(e) Discourses -- 16 Speaking For Dogs: The Role of Dog Biographies in Improving Canine Welfare in Bangkok, Thailand -- 17 Billy and Kani -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover; Speaking for Animals; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; List of Figures; Introduction; PART I (Mis) Representing Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Representation; 1 What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds; 2 Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone; 3 Investigations of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentrism and Canine-Centrism; PART II Animals in Human Traditions; 4 With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity
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5 The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics6 Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog; PART III Animal Self, Human Self; 7 Mistresses as Masters: Voicing Female Power Through the Subject Animal in Two Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies; 8 Catster.com: Creating Feline Identities Online; 9 Identity, Community, and Grief: The Role of Bunspace in Human and Rabbit Lives; PART IV Interspecies Communication and Connection; 10 Talking Dogs, Companion Capital, and the Limits of Bio-Political Fitness
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11 If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human SubjectPART V Speaking and Knowing: Accessing Animal Subjectivity; 12 The Power of Testimony: The Speaking Animal's Plea for Understanding in a Selection of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry; 13 "Straight from the Horse's Mouth": Equine Memoirs and Autobiographies; 14 First Friend, First Words: Speaking of/to Talking Dogs; PART VI The Ethics and Value of Speaking for Animals; 15 Horse Talk: Horses and Human(e) Discourses; 16 Speaking For Dogs: The Role of Dog Biographies in Improving Canine Welfare in Bangkok, Thailand
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17 Billy and KaniContributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415808996
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415808996
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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