Speaking for animals : animal autobiographical writing / edited by Margo DeMello ; illustrations by Jeff Hayes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeMello, Margo.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 80.

Routledge advances in sociology ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Animals--Social aspects.

Animals.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

This book contributes to the growing field of human-animal studies by examining the human impulse evidenced in blogs, social networking sites, video games, comic books, and animal welfare literature to ventriloquize the animal voice. Gathering scholars from a range of disciplines - anthropology, literature, history, religious studies, and women's studies - and engaging with the work of ethologists, primatologists, and animal behaviourists, the volume explores the ethical, epistemological, sociological, and anthropological implications of the phenomenon, asking not only what it tells us about how we see and know animals, but also what it tells us about how we construct and represent ourselves.

Contents:

Introduction

(mis) representing animal s: the limits and possibilities of representation

What do we want from talking animals? : reflections on literary representations of animal voices and minds / Karla Armbruster

Our animals, ourselves : representing animal minds in Timothy and the White Bone / Ryan Hediger

Investigations of a dog, by a dog : between anthropocentrism and canine-centrism / Naama Harel

Animals in human traditions

With dogs and lions as witnesses : speaking animals in the history of Christianity / Laura Hobgood-Oster

The speaking animal : non-human voices in comics / Lisa Brown

Who'll let the dogs in? : animals, authorship, and the library catalog / Nancy Babb

Animal self, human self

Mistresses as masters : voicing female power through the subject animal in two nineteenth-century animal autobiographies / Monica Flegel

Catster.com : creating feline identities online / Jennifer L. Schally and Stephen R. Couch

Identity, community and grief : the role of bunspace in human and rabbit lives / Margo DeMello

Interspecies communication and connection

Talking dogs, companion capital, and the limits of bio-political fitness / Merit Anglin

If we could talk to the animals : on changing the (post) human subject / Kathy Rudy

Speaking and knowing: accessing animal subjectivity

The power of testimony : the speaking animal's plea for understanding in a selection of eighteenth-century British poetry / Anne Milne

"Straight from the horse's mouth" : equine memoirs and autobiographies / Marion Copeland

First friend, first words : speaking of/to talking dogs / Jill Morstad

The ethics and value of speaking for animals

Horse talk : horses and human(e) discourses / Natalie Corinne Hansen

Speaking for dogs : the role of dog biographies in improving canine welfare in Bangkok, thailand / Nikki Savvides

The elephant letters : the story of Billy and Kani / G.A. Bradshaw

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415808996

0415808995

OCLC:

759915255