Reading Cats and Dogs

Companion Animals in World Literature
Herausgeber: Besson, Françoise; Marroum, Marianne; Bora, Zélia M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading Cats and Dogs offers fifteen examples of ecocritical animal studies from around the world. The essays in this volume complicate the concept of "companion animals" by exploring our relationships with stray and feral animals, utilitarian relationships with other species, and the troubling realities of domestication, ownership, and abuse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9781793611062
• ISBN-10: 1793611068
• Artikelnr.: 60153167

Autorenporträt

Françoise Besson is emerita professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, in Toulouse, France Zélia M. Bora is founder of the Commission for Animal Welfare and contributes to the postgraduate program at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil. Marianne Marroum is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Scott Slovic is university distinguished professor of environmental humanities at the University of Idaho in the US.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Prologue by Kev Reynolds
Introduction by Françoise Besson and Scott Slovic
Section I: Stray and Feral Companions
1.Karla Armbruster, "Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene"
2.Önder Cetin, "When You Love the Stray Animals as Much as Your Own Pets:
The Case of Companion Animals in Turkey"
3.Marianne Marroum, "Identity, Love, and Abuse in Laila al-Othman's Cat
Stories"
4.Lorraine Kerslake, "Of Mice, Rabbits, and Other Companions in Beatrix
Potter's More than Human World"
5.Niroshima Gunasekera, "Walking Through the Animal Kingdom: A Search for
the Near and Dear"
6.Qianqian Cheng, "From the Forbidden City to the Locked-down Megalopolis:
Reading the Behaviors of Cat Lovers in China"
Section II: The Usefulness of Companion Animals
7.Anna Re, "Memorable Dogs of Italian Literature"
8.Claire Cazejous-Augé, "Cross-species Cooperation: Hunting with Dogs in
Contemporary American Nature Writing"
9.Keita Hatooka, "Let the Sleeping Dogs Tell Lies: Companionship and
Solitude in Shu