TY - BOOK ID - 46206060 TI - Writing Animals : Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction PY - 2019 SN - 3030038807 3030038793 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - Animal welfare. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics. KW - Abuse of animals KW - Animal cruelty KW - Animals KW - Animals, Cruelty to KW - Animals, Protection of KW - Animals, Treatment of KW - Cruelty to animals KW - Humane treatment of animals KW - Kindness to animals KW - Mistreatment of animals KW - Neglect of animals KW - Prevention of cruelty to animals KW - Protection of animals KW - Treatment of animals KW - Welfare, Animal KW - Abuse of KW - Social aspects KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Literature, Modern—21st century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46206060 AB - This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies. ER -