Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

by Timothy C Baker and Timothy C. Baker

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030038793
• ISBN13: 9783030038793
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"