Reading Veganism
The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8096721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emelia Quinn (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reading Veganism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780192843494.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4205350715 |
| Open Library | OL33910211M |
| ISBN | 9780192843494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 37 |
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism’s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the ‘human’, the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify the monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts, destabilizing existing taxonomical classifications. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And, finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation. The principal contention of the book is that understandings of veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure, and insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice. Veganism’s association with positivity, in its drive for health and purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world. Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing of vegan identity
Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Law
Romantics, rebels and reactionaries
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
The Rise of Critical Animal Studies
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
Queer Ecologies
The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells
On Refusal
Introduction
A Vegan Form of Life
Vegan Cinema
Oryx and Crake and the New Nostalgia for Meat
Animal Rites
Animals and the limits of postmodernism
Our Children and Other Animals
Strange Natures
The Isle Reader
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Bodies that matter
My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Thinking Animals
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |