Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editor and Contributors
List of Figures
Animals in Posthumanist Thought: An Introduction
	1 Introduction
	2 The State of Animal Studies
	3 The ‘Animal Turn’
	4 Different Ways of Thinking of Animals
	5 On this Collected Volume: Conclusion
	References
Contestation Over Species Hierarchy and Categorization
Can Natural Theology Rethink Its Relationship with Non-human Animals?
	1 Introduction: Animals in the Biblical Creation Account
	2 Animals Before Domestication
	3 Creation
	4 ‘Animal’ Nature
	5 Contingency and Paradox
	6 Conclusion: Being Animals
	References
Reassessing the Predator: Representations of Predatory Animals in John Vaillant’s The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee’s The Wolf
	1 Introduction
	2 Nonhuman and Human Predators
		2.1 Empathizing and Learning with Predatory Animals
		2.2 Exploiting Dead Animal Bodies
		2.3 Predatory Animals and the Environment
	3 Conclusion
	References
Birds of a Feather: Interspecies Ethics and the Fate of Liminal Companion Animals
	1 Introduction
	2 Conclusion
	References
Animal (Re)constructions
Posthuman, Postanimal? Nonhuman Intelligence and Intentionality in Three Short Stories by H. G. Wells
	1 Introduction
	2 Three Nonhuman Narratives
	3 Conclusion
	References
The Snake Has a Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-human Animal
	1 Introduction
	2 Levinas and the Dwelling
	3 The Non-Human and the Ethical Command
	4 A Dog’s World
	5 The Language of the Eyes
	6 World and Soul
	7 Conclusion
	References
Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric
	1 Introduction
	2 Visual Rhetoric and Nonhuman Animals
	3 The Bowers of the Birds
	4 Flowers and Fruit and Fungus—Oh, My!: Analysis of the Bowers
		4.1 Aesthetics and Influence
		4.2 Cultural Preferences
		4.3 Communicative Purpose
	5 What Does It All Mean?: Implications for Posthuman Visual Rhetoric
	References
Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies
	1 Introduction
	2 What is an Animal Autobiography?
	3 The White Bone: Elephants and Religion
	4 Translating Animal Languages
	5 Conclusion
	References
Interspecies Relationalities
“Neigh Way, Jose”: Posthuman Communication in BoJack Horseman
	1 Introduction
	2 Queer Aesthetics in Posthuman Animation
	3 Relating to Animals, the Failure of Language
	4 Troubling the Pastoral (or Perhaps Not)
	5 Conclusion
	References
Understanding Across Differences in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Les neuf consciences du Malfini and in Dany Laferrière’s Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat
	1 Introduction
	2 Amplifying with Animals
	3 The Style of Telling
	4 Conclusion
	References
Human-Animal Relationality: Artistic Travels Through a Subculture’s Imaginations
	1 Historical Bestiaries: An Introduction
	2 A Contemporary Bestiary
	3 Reading Art—Reading Theory
	4 Moral Geographies
	5 Knights, Dragons and Others
	6 Beuys’ Interspecies Performances
	7 Ownership and Companionship
	8 Conclusion
	References
The Animal Survives: Sarah Orne Jewett’s A White Heron Intervenes as Survivor of the Industrialized World
	1 Introduction
	2 Jewett’s “A White Heron”
	3 Sylvia’s Woods
	4 The Hunter Naturalist
	5 Sylvia’s Ascension
	6 Conclusion
	References
Intersectionality-Gender and the Nonhuman
Into the Woods: The Creaturely and the Queer in 20th Century US American Hunting Narratives
	1 Introduction: Men in the Woods
	2 Into the Big Woods: Wilderness Masculinity and Its Creaturely Others in William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.
	3 Are We not Men?: Mailer and Dickey Queer the Woods
	4 Queering the Outdoors in Why Are We in Vietnam?
	5 Queer Predators and the Return of the Frontier in James Dickey's Deliverance
	6 Conclusion: The Creaturely and the Queer
	References
Madness, Femininity, Vegetarianism: Post-anthropocentric Representations in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor
	1 Introduction
	2 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Rebellious Femininity and Animal Rights Activism
	3 The “Madness” of Film Adaptation
	4 Conclusion
	References
The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith’s The Egoist
	1 Introduction
	2 The Struggle to Reach Avian Kinship: Clara
	3 Avian Metaphors as Mockery: Willoughby
	4 Conclusion
	References