Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Literature beyond the Human....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Kafka’s Animal Stories: Modernist Form and Interspecies Narrative....Pages 19-40
The Tortured Animals of Modernity: Animal Studies and Italian Literature....Pages 41-63
The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes’s Dark Pastoral....Pages 65-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
“Becoming Men” and Animal Sacrifice: Contemporary Literary Examples....Pages 91-107
A Tail for Two Theorists: The Problem of the Female Monster in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love....Pages 109-125
Friendship; Or, Representing More-Than-Human Subjectivities and Spaces in J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip ....Pages 127-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance....Pages 151-171
Animal Worlds and Anthropological Machines in Yann Martel’s Millennial Novel Life of Pi....Pages 173-192
“Like Words Printed on Skin”: Desire, Animal Masks, and Multispecies Relationships in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt ....Pages 193-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Horsescapes: Space, Nation, and Human-Horse Relations in Jane Smiley’s Horse Heaven ....Pages 217-239
Animal Others, Other People: Exploring Cetacean Personhood in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller ....Pages 241-257
Ghostly Presences: Tracing the Animal in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter ....Pages 259-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-290