Animal Alterity

Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal

AvSherryl Vint

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. We are living in a complex set of contradictory and conflicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations with non-human animals within a deeper understanding of the functions of the category ‘animal’.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-21
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781846312342

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Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Science Fiction University of Toronto Press, 2006) and co-editor of the journal of Science Fiction Film and Television published by Liverpool University Press).

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An intriguing and enlightening book. Nicely produced, well-edited and comprehensive, reflecting a great deal of effort by the author to collect and synthesize the sometimes disparate material ... it is definitely recommended for a university research library.Christopher Basnett, SFRA Review 295 Winter

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ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human–Animal Studies1. Always-Already Meat: The Human–Animal Boundary and Ethics2. The Mirror Test: Humans, Animals and Sentience3. The Animal Responds: Language, Animals and Science Fiction4. ‘The Female Is Somewhat Duller’: Gender and Animals5. Sapien Orientalism: Animals, Colonialism, Science Fiction6. Existing for Their Own Reasons: Animal Aliens7. A Rope over an Abyss: Humans as Animals8. The Modern Epimetheus: Animals and/as TechnologyConclusion. ‘Other Fashionings of Life’: Science Fiction, Human–Animal Studies and the Future of SubjectivityNotesWorks CitedIndex