Writing Animals
Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8082134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy C Baker, Tim Baker (0000-0002-6423-9948, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Writing Animals (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9 |
| OpenAlex | W4230615382 |
| ISBN | 9783030038809 |
| Open Library | OL28170392M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies
Anthropocentrism · Art · Biology · Domestication · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Human animal · Linguistics · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Visual arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · 21st century · Animals in literature · Fiction · History and criticism · Human-animal relationships in literature · Literature, modern, history and criticism · Modern Literature · Suffering in literature · Ecology · History · Philosophy
Decolonial Animal Ethic in Eden Robinsonʼs Trickster Trilogy
Duality of Abuse and Care. Empathy in Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants
Zwischen Biologie und Bürokratie
Ensaio sobre a morte
Surrealist Becomings
Writing with the bitches
A Multi-species World in the Poetry of Alenka Jovanovski and Vesna Liponik
Within or Outside the Boundaries
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness
The Thunderstorm of Repetition in the Works of Max Porter
Post-Anthropocentric Subject Imaginaries in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”, Ali Smith’s “The Beholder”, and Daisy Johnson’s “Starver
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |