Creature discomfort : fauna-criticism, ethics and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry / by Scott M. DeVries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeVries, Scott M., 1973- author.

Series:

Critical animal studies ; Volume 4.

Critical Animal Studies, 2212-4950 ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Spanish American poetry--History and criticism.

Spanish American poetry.

Animals in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Creature Discomfort: Fauna-criticism, Ethics, and the Representation of Animals in Spanish American Fiction and Poetry , Scott M. DeVries uncovers a tradition in Spanish American literature where animal-ethical representations anticipate many of the most pressing concerns from present debates in animal studies. The author documents moments from the corpus that articulate long-standing positions such as a defense of animal rights or advocacy for liberationism, that engage in literary philosophical meditations concerning mind theory and animal sentience, and that anticipate current ideas from Critical Animal Studies including the rejection of hierarchical differentiations between the categories human and nonhuman. Creature Discomfort innovates the notion of “fauna-criticism” as a new literary approach within animal studies; this kind of analysis emphasizes the reframing of literary history to expound animal ethical positions from literary texts, both those that have been considered canonical as well as those that have long been neglected. In this study, DeVries employs fauna-criticism to examine nonhuman sentience, animal interiority, and other ethical issues such as the livestock and pet industries, circuses, zoos, hunting, and species extinction in fictional narrative and poetry from the nineteenth century, modernista , Regional, indigenista , and contemporary periods of Spanish American literature.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Horse, Ape, Mosquito: Animal Perspectives in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Texts

The Beasts of Ecological Narrative: Intelligent Animals in the Environmental Novels of Luis Sepúlveda

Swan Songs: The Animal as Muse, Symbol, and Object of Spanish American Modernismo

Caged Verse: Animals in Poetry

Meat: Regional Livestock Literature

Harness, Harpoon, and Cage: Horses, Whaling, and Animal Entertainment in Regional Literature

Tribal Creatures: Animals and Indigenista Literature

A Dog and Hippo Show: Animals in Recent Fiction

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31659-0

OCLC:

945088556

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004316591 DOI