Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing

Cover......Page 1
Speaking for Animals......Page 2
Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures
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Introduction
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PART I (Mis) Representing Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Representation......Page 26
1 What Do We Want from Talking Animals? Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds......Page 28
2 Our Animals, Ourselves: Representing Animal Minds in Timothy and The White Bone......Page 46
3 Investigations of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentrism and Canine-Centrism......Page 60
PART II Animals in Human Traditions......Page 71
4 With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity......Page 73
5 The Speaking Animal: Non-Human Voices in Comics......Page 83
6 Who’ll Let the Dogs In? Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog......Page 89
PART III Animal Self, Human Self......Page 97
7 Mistresses as Masters: Voicing Female Power Through the Subject Animal in Two Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies......Page 99
8 Catster.com: Creating Feline Identities Online......Page 113
9 Identity, Community, and Grief: The Role of Bunspace in Human and Rabbit Lives......Page 125
PART IV Interspecies Communication and Connection......Page 140
10 Talking Dogs, Companion Capital, and the Limits of Bio-Political Fitness......Page 142
11 If We Could Talk to the Animals: On Changing the (Post) Human Subject......Page 158
PART V Speaking and Knowing: Accessing Animal Subjectivity......Page 169
12 The Power of Testimony: The Speaking Animal’s Plea for Understanding in a Selection of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry......Page 171
13 “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth”: Equine Memoirs and Autobiographies......Page 187
14 First Friend, First Words: Speaking of/to Talking Dogs......Page 201
PART VI The Ethics and Value of Speaking for Animals......Page 212
15 Horse Talk: Horses and Human(e) Discourses......Page 214
16 Speaking For Dogs: The Role of Dog Biographies in Improving Canine Welfare in Bangkok, Thailand......Page 238
17 Billy and Kani......Page 252
Contributors......Page 271
Index......Page 277