Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts
Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350356160
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 232x152x14 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English 616
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Android as Device
Chapter 1. Nonhuman Hope
Chapter 2. The Artificial Gaze
Chapter 3. Familiar Aliens
Chapter 4. Posthumous Humanity
Conclusion: Uniqueness, or, Doing Animal Studies One Alien at a Time
Coda: To the Wild Robots of the Future
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