Format:
xviii, 216 Seiten
ISBN:
9780820362182
Series Statement:
Animal voices, animal worlds
Uniform Title:
Biographies animales
Content:
A Foreigner in France Charles X's Giraffe (1825-1845) -- Warrior the War Horse (1908-1941) -- Modestine Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes (1878) -- Islero Vanquisher of Manolete (1947) -- Consul The Human Chimpanzee in the Manchester Zoo (1893-1894) -- Meshie The Raven Family's Chimpanzee Child (1930-1934) -- Bummer and Lazarus Stray Dogs in San Francisco (1861-1863) -- Pritchard Dumas's Unfaithful Companion (1845-1850) -- Bashan Walker of Thomas Mann (1915-1920) -- Douchka Colette Audry's Alter Ego (1954-1960).
Content:
"What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Éric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowledge of historical methodologies to give voice to some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most interesting animals. He offers brief yet innovative accounts of these animals' lives in a way that challenges the reader's thinking about animals. Baratay illustrates the need to develop a nonanthropocentric means of viewing the lives of animals and including animals themselves in the narrative of their lives. Animal Biographies launches an all-new investigation into the lives of animals and is a major contribution to the field of animal studies. This English translation of Éric Baratay's Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées, originally published in France in 2017 (Éditions du Seuil), uses firsthand accounts starting from the nineteenth century about specific animals who lived in Europe and the United States to reconstruct, as best as possible, their stories as they would have experienced them. History is, after all, not just the domain of humans. Animals have their own. Baratay breaks the model of human exceptionalism to give us the biographies of some of history and literature's most famous animals. The reader will catch a glimpse of storied lives as told by Modestine, the donkey who carried Robert Louis Stevenson through the Alps; Warrior, the World War I horse made famous in Steven Spielberg's War Horse; Islero, the bull who gored Spain's greatest bullfighter; and others. Through these stories we discover their histories, their personalities, and their shared experiences with others of their species"--
Note:
"Originally published in French under the title Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées © Editions du Seuil, 2017."
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820362199
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Biographies animales
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Tiere
;
Biografie
Author information:
Baratay, Éric 1960-
