Human/animal : a bestiary in essays / Amie Souza Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reilly, Amie Souza, author.

Series:

Life writing series.

Life writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reilly, Amie Souza.

Human-animal relationships.

Genre:

Essays.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Amie Souza Reilly bought an old house in the suburbs. She had just gotten remarried and was looking forward to a new start with her new husband and her six-year-old son. But immediately after moving in, the next-door neighbors began a crusade to push them out. These two brothers followed her, peered in her windows, stood in her yard, trapped her inside her car. As they broke boundary after suburban boundary, she found herself implicated in their violence. Human/Animal merges personal narrative and cultural criticism to unleash the complicated relationship between instinct and action, violence and regret. This bestiary-in-essays wrestles American colonialism, horror films, feminism, and gender studies to confront the intrusive neighbors the author could not. Ultimately, this book asks larger questions about proximity, care, and the line between human and animal. Illustrated with the author’s own sketches, Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays grapples not only with Reilly’s place in her neighborhood, but with America’s past and current political climate."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Author’s note

Preface

I. What happened

II. On boundaries

III. On gossip

IV. On performance

V. On catching and being caught

VI. On fear

VII. On boundaries, again

VIII. On boundaries, once more

IX. On paranoia and revenge

X. On continuation

Afterword

Full bestiary, collected and alphabetized

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771126823

1771126825

OCLC:

1511109320