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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.