Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts
Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction
- 216 pages
- English
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Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts
Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction
About this book
Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them. Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Dedication Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Android as Device: Literary Creatures and the De-automatization of Animals
- 1 Nonhuman Hope
- 2 The Artificial Gaze
- 3 Familiar Aliens
- 4 Posthumous Humanity
- 5 Conclusion: Uniqueness, or, Doing Animal Studies One Alien at a Time
- 6 Coda: To the Wild Robots of the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright Page