Beastly modernisms : the figure of the animal in modernist literature and culture / edited by Alex Goody and Saskia McCracken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goody, Alex, 1971- editor.

McCracken, Saskia, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. <i>Beastly Modernisms<i> gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture.<br><br>The chapters in <i>Beastly Modernisms</i> present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, Sámi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION: ‘BEASTLY MODERNISMS’

Part I: Companion Species

1 META MODERNIST BEASTS, OR FLUSH’S FUTURE: CERIDWEN DOVEY’S ONLY THE ANIMALS AND SIGRID NUNEZ’S MITZ: THE MARMOSET OF BLOOMSBURY

2 CAN FLUSH COUNT?: VIRGINIA WOOLF, ANIMALITY AND NUMBERS

3 CANINE COMPANIONS, RACE AND AFFECTIVE ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN FLORENCE AYSCOUGH’S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE DOG (1926) AND MARY GAUNT’S A BROKEN JOURNEY (1919)

Part II : Beastly Traces

4 MAKING AN IMPRESSION DEEPLY : AUTHORISING ANIMALS IN D. H. LAWRENCE

5 FOLLOWING THE BEAST FAMILIAR: DJUNA BARNES’S FAMILY DRAMAS

6 THE TAXIDERMIC IMAGINARY IN MODERNIST LITERAT URE

Part III: Animal, Nation, Empire

7 SPECIES CLEANSING: THE RHETORIC OF RAT CONTROL IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF POLAND 1945–1956

8 THE BARKING DOG AND CRYING BIRD IN PARTITION STORIES: BEASTLY MODERNISM AND THE SUBALTERN ANIMISM OF MANTO, RAKESH AND ANAND

9 RESISTANT REINDEERS: HUMAN–ANIMAL RELATIONS AND CULTURAL SELF-APPROPRIATION IN SÁMI ART AND LITERATURE

Part IV: Intersections, Encounters

10. ANIMAL–HUMAN ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE CANADIAN WILD ANIMAL STORIES OF CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

11 ENCOUNTERING FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL BECOMINGS IN LEONORA CARRINGTON ’S SURREALIST HYBRID TALES

12 MODERN INTERSECTIONS: READING ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN’S ANIMALS

Part V: Extinction, War, Proliferation

13 1940s AVIAN NOIR

14 UNHOMING THE PIGEON: AHMED ALI’S TWILIGHT IN DELHI

15. THE MODERNIST JELLY FISH

AFTERWORD: THE ANIMAL IN THE MIRROR

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474498050

1474498051

9781474498043

1474498043

OCLC:

1367326886