UID:
almahu_9949386084802882
Format:
1 online resource
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781003049883
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1003049885
,
9781000074833
,
1000074838
,
9781000074765
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1000074765
,
9781000075014
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100007501X
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Content:
In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph argues, starts precisely from the way we relate to our closer companion species. The authors gathered here endeavour to find multiple exit strategies from the anthropocentric paradigms that have bound the human and social sciences. Part I investigates the unexplored margins of human history by re-reading historical events, literary texts, and scientific findings from an animal's perspective, rather than a human's. Part II explores different forms of human-animal relationships, putting the emphasis on the institutions, spaces, and discourses that frame our interactions with animals. Part III engages with processes of "translation" that aim to render animals' experience and perception into human words and visual language
Note:
Ways out of the anthropological machine, or how and why to defamiliarize ourselves / Chiara Mengozzi -- Part I. "Playing a part in the dramaturgy of the real": (hi)story on the side of animals: A giraffe's journey to France (1826-1827): recording the encounter from the animal's point of view / Éric Baratay -- Structures of captivity and animal agency: the London Zoo, ca. 1865 to the present times / Violette Pouillard -- Atlantic history from the saddle: the role of horses in the slave-trading Atlantic world / Rachael l. Pasierowska -- Re-animalizing animals, re-animating humans / Michał Krzykawski -- Laika's lullabies: post-anthropocentric representations of the first dog in space / Anita Jarzyna -- The blind spot of the plot: thinking beyond human with Karel Čapek / Chiara Mengozzi -- Part II. "I relate, therefore I am": human-animal encounters: Animals and their keepers in Belle Époque postcards of the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie / Maria P. Gindhart -- "Seeing eye to eye, through a glass clearly"? Blurring the boundary between man and animals / Quentin Montagne -- Flesh, fur and forgetting / Kari Weil -- Animals as monsters,victims and models in the age of decadence / Eva Voldřichová Beránková -- Part III. "Across the narrow abyss of non-comprehension": entering animals' lives: Literature and animal expressiveness: on cognitive and ethic aspects of zoopoetics / Anne Simon -- "Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine...": narrative voice and the question of the animal / Kári Driscoll -- From becoming-animal to being a beast. literary experiments in crossing the species divide / Jonathan Pollock -- Cameras that pose as animals: imagining non-human animals through the POV shot / Concepción Cortés Zulueta -- Playing (with) the nonhuman: the animal avatar in Bear Simulator / Michael Fuchs
Additional Edition:
Print version: Outside the anthropological machine. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 ISBN 9780367504441
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003049883
