Beastly Modernisms : The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture

Goody, Alex (EDT)/ McCracken, Saskia (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2023/03発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474498029
• DDC分類 809.93362

Full Description

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, S mi 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.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Beastly Modernisms

Saskia McCracken and Alex Goody

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

Derek Ryan

2. Can Flush Count?: Virginia Woolf, Animality and Numbers

Jane Goldman

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)

Juanjuan Wu

Part II: Beastly Traces

4. Making an Impression Deeply: Authorising Animals in D. H. Lawrence

Carrie Rohman

5. Following the Beast Familiar: Djuna Barnes's Family Dramas

Peter Adkins

6. The Taxidermic Imaginary in Modernist Literature

Paul Fagan

Part III: Animal, Nation, Empire

7. Species Cleansing: The Rhetoric of Rat Control in the People's Republic of Poland 1945-1956

Gabriela Jarzebowska

8. The Barking Dog and Crying Bird in Partition Stories: Beastly Modernism and the Subaltern Animism of Manto, Rakesh and Anand

Beerendra Pandey

9. Resistant Reindeers: Human-Animal Relations and Cultural Self-Appropriation in Sámi Art and Literature

Katharina Alsen

Part IV: Intersections, Encounters

10. Animal-Human Entanglements in the Canadian Wild Animal Stories of Charles G. D. Roberts

Lauren Cullen

11. Encountering Female Human Animal Becomings in Leonora Carrington's Surrealist Hybrid Tales

Karen Eckersley

12. Modern Intersections: Reading Anita Scott Coleman's Animals

Elizabeth Curry

Part V: Extinction, War, Proliferation

13. 1940s Avian Noir

Laura Blomvall

14. Unhoming the Pigeon: Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi

Caroline Hovanec

15. The Modernist Jellyfish

Rachel Murray

Afterword: The Animal in the Mirror

Kari Weil

Notes on Contributors

Index