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Reading Cats and Dogs

Companion Animals in World Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvFrançoise Besson,Zélia M. Bora,Marianne Marroum,Scott Slovic,Francoise Besson,Zelia M. Bora

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Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntaro Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on “Stray and Feral Companions,” “The Usefulness of Companion Animals,” and “Problematizing Companion Animals,” Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers’ assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-30
Mått160 x 241 x 22 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor300
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793611062

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Françoise Besson is emerita professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, in Toulouse, FranceZélia M. Bora is founder of the Commission for Animal Welfare and contributes to the postgraduate program at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil.Marianne Marroum is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.Scott Slovic is university distinguished professor of environmental humanities at the University of Idaho in the US.

Table of ContentsPrologue by Kev ReynoldsIntroduction by Françoise Besson and Scott SlovicSection I: Stray and Feral Companions1.Karla Armbruster, “Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene”2.Önder Cetin, “When You Love the Stray Animals as Much as Your Own Pets: The Case of Companion Animals in Turkey”3.Marianne Marroum, “Identity, Love, and Abuse in Laila al-Othman’s Cat Stories”4.Lorraine Kerslake, “Of Mice, Rabbits, and Other Companions in Beatrix Potter’s More than Human World”5.Niroshima Gunasekera, “Walking Through the Animal Kingdom: A Search for the Near and Dear”6.Qianqian Cheng, “From the Forbidden City to the Locked-down Megalopolis: Reading the Behaviors of Cat Lovers in China”Section II: The Usefulness of Companion Animals7.Anna Re, “Memorable Dogs of Italian Literature”8.Claire Cazejous-Augé, “Cross-species Cooperation: Hunting with Dogs in Contemporary American Nature Writing”9.Keita Hatooka, “Let the Sleeping Dogs Tell Lies: Companionship and Solitude in Shu

Within a mile of my home I encounter animals along a wide spectrum of constraint and freedom, ranging from pampered hyperdomestication to lethal neglect. This fascinating collection of chapters extends that variety to the international, exploring animal-centered works of literature out of Beijing and Brussels, Soweto and Sri Lanka, Cameroon and Brazil. Spilling over into the philosophical and affectingly autobiographical, the contributors collectively challenge and valorize anew our views of animal companionship. Above all they emphasize that, enveloped by cross-cultural globalization, mass species extinction and slaughter, zoonotic pandemic and climate change, human and non-human animals’ fates are irrevocably entwined.