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Animal alterity : science fiction and the question of the animal /
This title uses readings of science fiction texts to explore how animals are central to our perception of humanity. Arguing that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns, the author expresses an urgent need to reconsider the hum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This title uses readings of science fiction texts to explore how animals are central to our perception of humanity. Arguing that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns, the author expresses an urgent need to reconsider the human-animal boundary in a world of genetic engineering, factory farming, species extinctions, and increasing evidence of animal intelligence, emotions, and tool use. Mapping the complex terrain of human relations with non-human animals, the book offers an intervention into the contentious ongoing discussions of the post-human. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846316135 1846316138 |