EAN: 9783030038793

WRITING ANIMALS - TIMOTHY C BAKER GEBUNDEN

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 relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents
from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall  Alexis Wright  and Max Porter  and texts
from experimental fiction to work for children  Writing Animals offers an original perspective
on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

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