Animal Alterity

by Sherryl Vint

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846318157
• ISBN13: 9781846318153
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"