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Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Serija: Environmental Cultures
  • Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350356123
  • ISBN-13: 9781350356122
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm
  • Serija: Environmental Cultures
  • Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350356123
  • ISBN-13: 9781350356122
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.

Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals.

Recenzijos

A great leap forward in the literary-theoretical approach to animal studies. Recommended for students of theory and fantastika. Heartily recommended. * Anthony Lioi, Professor of Liberal Arts and English, The Julliard School, USA * Rando is not only a visionary author who is producing revolutionary knowledge; he is teaching curiosity and bravery, as well as how to deconstruct ourselves before moving to deconstruct the world beyond humanity. * Journal: Midwest Modern Language Association * Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts provides a brilliantly subtle and compelling discussion of how thinking about entities that arent animals can change our conceptions of animals by reconfiguring understandings of the human. -- John Miller, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Sheffield, UK Rando contributes greatly to the fields of Animal Studies [ this] is a key text for any scholar to venture beyond the fringes of Animal Studies to explore its many possibilities. * Ecozon@ *

Daugiau informacijos

Through readings of texts featuring creatures such as androids, aliens and ghosts, this book explores the boundaries of humanness and helps the reader to see nonhuman animals afresh and reimagining the terms of our relationships with them.
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: Android as Device: Literary Creatures and the De-automatization of Animals 1(20)
1 Nonhuman Hope
21(30)
2 The Artificial Gaze
51(32)
3 Familiar Aliens
83(30)
4 Posthumous Humanity
113(36)
5 Conclusion: Uniqueness, or, Doing Animal Studies One Alien at a Time
149(20)
6 Coda: To the Wild Robots of the Future
169(14)
Bibliography 183(14)
Index 197
David P. Rando is a Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University, USA.