Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures
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Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency. …mehr

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Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency.
Autorenporträt
Valeska Bopp-Filimonov is Junior professor for Romance Studies with special dedication to Romanian Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany).  Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf is Habilitated PhD. Professor of French and Spanish Philology (Literature and Cultural Studies) at the University of Passau (Germany).