Animal Writing

Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Danielle Sands, Royal Holloway University of London) Sands, Danielle (Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture

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Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects – beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-25
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrosscurrents
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474439039

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AcknowledgementsPreface Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies 1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-Species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: ‘It Hurt, It Was Painful – that’s all there is to say’2. Anthropomorphism and the ‘Ends of Man’ in the Anthropocene: ‘My Chimp Nature’.3. Telling Nonhuman Stories: ‘The Secret Contours of Objects’ 4. Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: ‘The Siren Song of Entomology’5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: ‘Their Blood does not Stain Our Hands’ConclusionBibliography

This original work brings literary and philosophical insights to bear on the assessment of contemporary debates on human-animal relations in a range of interdisciplinary fields including new materialism, affect theory and posthumanism. With her customary elegance, Sands reflects on the metaphorical nature of perception and the complex relations between perception, imagination and cognition in our dealings with the nonhuman. Bold, provocative and highly enjoyable.