In highlighting animal sounds and their cultural meanings, these novels by authors including Amitav Ghosh, Julia Leigh, Richard Powers, Karen Joy Fowler, Cormac McCarthy, and Han Kang also enrich pressing debates about species extinction, sound pollution, nonhuman communication, and human-animal relations.
Ben De Bruyn teaches English Literature at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Literature Now (2016) and the author of several articles on contemporary fi ction and the environmental humanities in journals like Studies in the Novel and Textual Practice.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction: Multispecies Fictions and Their Acoustic Contact Zones.- 2. Biodiversity’s Bandwidth.- 3. Polyphony Beyond the Human.- 4. Multispecies Multilingualism.- 5. Reading the Animal Pulse.- 6. Whale Song in Submarine Fiction.- 7. Conclusion: Sonic Curiosity at the End of the World.