Timothy C. Baker

Writing Animals

Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

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This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-03880-9
EAN: 9783030038809
Produktnummer: 29653637
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'043 KB

Über den Autor

Timothy C. Baker is Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009) and Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014).