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Title Beastly modernisms : the figure of the animal in modernist literature and culture / edited by Saskia McCracken and Alex Goody
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents LIst of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beastly modernisms -- Part I: Companion species -- 1. Metamodernist beasts, or Flush's future: Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals and Sigrid Nunez's Mitz: the marmoset of Bloomsbury -- 2. Can Flush count?: Virginia Woolf, animality and numbers -- 3. Canine companions, race and affective anthropomorphism in Florence Ayscough's The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog (1926) and Mary Gaunt's A Broken Journey (1919) ) -- Part II : Beastly traces -- 4. Making and impression deeply: authorising animals in D.H. Lawrence -- 5. Following the beast familiar: Djuna Barnes's family dramas -- 6. The taxidermic imaginary in modernist literature -- Part III: Animal, nation, empire -- 7. Species cleansing: the rhetoric of rat control in The People's Republic of Poland 1945-1956 -- 8. The barking dog and crying bird in partition stories: beastly modernism and the subaltern animism of Manto, Rakesh, and Anand -- 9. Resistant reindeers: human-animal relations and cultural self-appropriation in Sámi art and literature -- Part IV: Intersections, encounters -- 10. Animal-human entanglements in the Canadian wild animal stories of Charles G.D. Roberts -- 11. Encountering femal human animal becomings in Leonora Carrington's surrealist hybrid tales -- 12. Modern intersections: reading Anita Scott Coleman's Animals -- Part V: Extinction, war, proliferation -- 13. 1940s Avian noir -- 14. Unhoming the pigeon: Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi -- 15. The modernist jelly fish -- Afterword: the animal in the mirror -- Notes on contributors -- Index
Summary A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies. Presents the diverse range of intersections between modernist and critical animal studies. Includes cutting-edge research contributions from a heterogenous and interdisciplinary range of modernist scholars. Offers a key research resource for scholars in modernist studies, critical animal studies and cognate areas. Provides a classroom-ready collection of essays relevant to undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist writing and critical animal studies.The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture. The chapters in Beastly Modernisms present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, Sámi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 30, 2023)
Subject Animals in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Animals in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Form Electronic book
Author McCracken, Saskia, editor.
Goody, Alex, 1971- editor.
ISBN 9781474498043
1474498043