Información General

• Autores: Françoise Besson (coord.), Zélia Bora Monteiro (coord.), Marianne Marroum (coord.), Scott Slovic (coord.)
• Editores: Lexington Books
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Colecciones: Ecocritical theory and practice
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-7936-1106-2
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Resumen

• Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on "Stray and Feral Companions," "The Usefulness of Companion Animals," and "Problematizing Companion Animals," Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers' assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.

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Listado de artículos

• • Stray and feral companions

    • Our feral future: dog stories and the Anthropocen

      Karla Armbruster

      págs. 23-45

      

    • When you love the stray animals as much as your own pets: the case of companion animals in Turkey

      Önder Çetin

      págs. 47-59

      

    • Identity, love, and abuse in Laila al-Othman's cat stories

      Marianne Marroum

      págs. 61-77

      

    • Of mice, rabbits, and other companions in Beatrix Potter's more than human world

      Lorraine Kerslake Young

      págs. 79-93

      

    • Walking through the animal kingdom: a search for the near and dear

      Niroshini Gunasekera

      págs. 95-106

      

    • From the Forbidden City to the locked-down Megalopolis: reading the behaviors of cat lovers in China

      Qianqian Cheng

      págs. 107-127

      

  • Usefulness of companion animals

    • Memorable dogs of Italian literature

      Anna Re

      págs. 131-146

      

    • Cross-species cooperation: lunting with dogs in contemporary American nature writing

      Claire Cazajous Augé

      págs. 147-155

      

    • Let the sleeping dogs tell lies: companionship and solitude in Shuntaro Tanikawa's dog poems

      Keita Hatooka

      págs. 157-167

      

    • Of dogs, horses, and buffalos in Cameroon: companion animals in cameroonian fiction

      Kenneth Toah Nsah

      págs. 169-188

      

  • Problematizing companion animals

    • The plight of dogs in the country-city gap: reading Chinese dog narratives across genres

      Chen Hong

      págs. 191-205

      

    • Cat killers, black diamonds, and a talking cat: feline companions in post-transitional South African fiction

      Wendy Woodward

      págs. 207-217

      

    • The paradoxical world of animal representation in the Brazilian novel "As Horas Nuas" in light of Greek philosophy

      Zélia Bora Monteiro

      págs. 219-230

      

    • Canine initiation into Ecowisdom

      Athane Adrahane

      págs. 231-254