Animal Writing
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actor-network theory
affect
animal studies
Author_Danielle Sands
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contemporary fiction
critical plant studies
Donna Haraway
ecocriticism
ecofeminism
ecological humanities
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Graham Harman
Han Kang
Jim Crace
Karen Joy Fowler
new materialism
object-oriented ontology
posthumanism
Roger Caillois
Yann Martel
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- ISBN 9781474439046
- Weight: 343g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2021
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects – beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.
Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.
