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Author_Amie Souza Reilly
bad neighbors
Bestiary
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colonialism
cultural studies
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feminism
formally unique
gender studies
horror films
hybrid nonfiction
illustrated
memoircriticism hybrid
misogyny
motherhood
neighbor stalking
neighbor violence
neighbors
patriarchy
personal narrative
power
suburbia
surveillance
white supremacy
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- ISBN 9781771126809
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Amie Souza Reilly bought an old house in the suburbs. She had just gotten remarried and was looking forward to a new start with her new husband and her six-year-old son. But immediately after moving in, the two brothers who lived next door began an insidious crusade to push them out. They followed her, peered in her windows, stood in her yard, trapped her inside her car. As they broke boundary after suburban boundary, she found herself implicated in their violence.
Human/Animal?merges personal narrative and cultural criticism to unleash the complicated relationship between instinct and action, violence and regret. This bestiary-in-essays wrestles with American colonialism, horror films, feminism, and gender studies to confront the intrusive neighbors the author could not. Ultimately, this book asks larger questions about civility, care, and the line between human and animal.
Illustrated with the author’s own sketches,?Human/Animal grapples not only with Reilly’s place in her neighborhood, but with America’s past and current political climate.
Human/Animal?merges personal narrative and cultural criticism to unleash the complicated relationship between instinct and action, violence and regret. This bestiary-in-essays wrestles with American colonialism, horror films, feminism, and gender studies to confront the intrusive neighbors the author could not. Ultimately, this book asks larger questions about civility, care, and the line between human and animal.
Illustrated with the author’s own sketches,?Human/Animal grapples not only with Reilly’s place in her neighborhood, but with America’s past and current political climate.
Amie Souza Reilly is an American writer and artist from Milford, Connecticut. She holds an MA in Literature from Fordham University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Fairfield University. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Atticus Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She teaches and is the Writer-in-Residence at Sacred Heart University.
