Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Françoise Besson ,  Zélia M. Bora ,  Marianne Marroum ,  Scott Slovic
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781793611062

ISBN 10:   1793611068
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   30 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Prologue by Kev Reynolds Introduction by Françoise Besson and Scott Slovic Section I: Stray and Feral Companions Karla Armbruster, “Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene” Önder Cetin, “When You Love the Stray Animals as Much as Your Own Pets: The Case of Companion Animals in Turkey” Marianne Marroum, “Identity, Love, and Abuse in Laila al-Othman’s Cat Stories” Lorraine Kerslake, “Of Mice, Rabbits, and Other Companions in Beatrix Potter’s More than Human World” Niroshima Gunasekera, “Walking Through the Animal Kingdom: A Search for the Near and Dear” Qianqian Cheng, “From the Forbidden City to the Locked-down Megalopolis: Reading the Behaviors of Cat Lovers in China” Section II: The Usefulness of Companion Animals Anna Re, “Memorable Dogs of Italian Literature” Claire Cazejous-Augé, “Cross-species Cooperation: Hunting with Dogs in Contemporary American Nature Writing” Keita Hatooka, “Let the Sleeping Dogs Tell Lies: Companionship and Solitude in Shuntarō Tanikawa’s Dog Poems” Kenneth Toah Nsah, “Of Dogs, Horses, and Buffalos in Cameroon: Companion Animals in Cameroonian Fiction” Section III: Problematizing Companion Animals Chen Hong, “The Plight of Dogs in the Country-City Gap: Reading Chinese Dog Narratives across Genres” Wendy Woodward, “Cat Killers, Black Diamonds, and a Talking Cat: Feline Companions in Post-Transitional South African Fiction” Zélia M. Bora, “The Paradoxical World of Animal Representation in the Brazilian Novel As Horas Nuas in Light of Greek Philosophy” Athane Adrahane, “Canine Initiation into Ecowisdom” Epilogue by Françoise Besson, Zélia M. Bora, Marianne Marroum, and Scott Slovic Index

Reviews

Within a mile of my home I encounter animals along a wide spectrum of constraint and freedom, ranging from pampered hyperdomestication to lethal neglect. This fascinating collection of essays extends that variety to the international, exploring animal-centred works of literature out of Beijing and Brussels, Soweto and Sri Lanka, Cameroon and Brazil. Spilling over into the philosophical and affectingly autobiographical, the contributions collectively challenge and valorise anew our views of animal companionship. Above all they emphasize that, enveloped by cross-cultural globalization, mass species extinction and slaughter, zoonotic pandemic and climate change, human and non-human animals’ fates are irrevocably entwined. —Dan Wylie, author of Elephant -- Dan Wylie

Within a mile of my home I encounter animals along a wide spectrum of constraint and freedom, ranging from pampered hyperdomestication to lethal neglect. This fascinating collection of essays extends that variety to the international, exploring animal-centred works of literature out of Beijing and Brussels, Soweto and Sri Lanka, Cameroon and Brazil. Spilling over into the philosophical and affectingly autobiographical, the contributions collectively challenge and valorise anew our views of animal companionship. Above all they emphasize that, enveloped by cross-cultural globalization, mass species extinction and slaughter, zoonotic pandemic and climate change, human and non-human animals' fates are irrevocably entwined. -Dan Wylie, author of Elephant -- Dan Wylie

Author Information

Françoise Besson is emerita professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. Zelia M. Bora is founder of the Commission for Animal Welfare at the Federal University of Paraíba and contributes to the Post-Graduate Program at the Federal University of Paraíba. Marianne Marroum is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Scott Slovic is university distinguished professor of environmental humanities at the University of Idaho.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions