Personhood
At the edges of history, territories, species, and theories, arbitrary lines mark us, mapping the living and the dead. Where animals overlap or get tangled in the lines, we beg the question. Where the lines fall apart, we jump to simple answers, and land in deadly consequences. Whether exploring refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the revolving absurdity of the human role in the invasive species crisis, or the pathetic fallacy, Personhood reveals that the unmistakable problem remaining between humans and our nonhuman relatives is one of language. Thalia Field's bold and engaging new work focuses a wide lens on how power justifies itse…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2973-9
- EAN: 9780811229739
- Produktnummer: 33619384
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Über den Autor
Thalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000), Incarnate: Story Material (2004), and Bird Lovers, Backyard (2010).
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