Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

Matthias Stephan, Sune Borkfelt

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978779372
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism & Nature
• Index: Literature

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity's path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis
• The Peculiar Associations of Melville’s “Encantadas”
• Making a Difference?
• Stories of “Being-with” Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses
• Witnessing
• Animal Texts
• Beautiful and Sublime
• The Sea’s Witness
• Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman
• The Posthuman Return
• Classifying Monsters
• “‘There Isn’t Anything That Isn’t Political.’ It’s an Expression that Sounds Human, but Everything i
• Mutation and Post-Apocalypse
• “We’ve Made Meat for Everyone!”
• “There Would Be Monsters, Some Hopeful”
• “A Reign of Community and Harmony”
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors