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Speaking for Animals : Animal Autobiographical Writing.

For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their own autobiographies. Animals speak, famously,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeMello, Margo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge advances in sociology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Speaking for Animals -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- PART I (Mis) Representing Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Representation -- 1 What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds -- 2 Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone -- 3 Investigations of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentrism and Canine-Centrism -- PART II Animals in Human Traditions -- 4 With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity -- 5 The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics -- 6 Who'll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog -- PART III Animal Self, Human Self -- 7 Mistresses as Masters: Voicing Female Power Through the Subject Animal in Two Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies -- 8 Catster.com: Creating Feline Identities Online -- 9 Identity, Community, and Grief: The Role of Bunspace in Human and Rabbit Lives -- PART IV Interspecies Communication and Connection -- 10 Talking Dogs, Companion Capital, and the Limits of Bio-Political Fitness -- 11 If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human Subject -- PART V Speaking and Knowing: Accessing Animal Subjectivity -- 12 The Power of Testimony: The Speaking Animal's Plea for Understanding in a Selection of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry -- 13 "Straight from the Horse's Mouth": Equine Memoirs and Autobiographies -- 14 First Friend, First Words: Speaking of/to Talking Dogs -- PART VI The Ethics and Value of Speaking for Animals -- 15 Horse Talk: Horses and Human(e) Discourses -- 16 Speaking For Dogs: The Role of Dog Biographies in Improving Canine Welfare in Bangkok, Thailand -- 17 Billy and Kani -- Contributors -- Index. 
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