Danielle Sands

Animal Writing (eBook, ePUB)

Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474439060
• Artikelnr.: 72419332

Autorenporträt

Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies
1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-Species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: 'It
Hurt, It Was Painful - that's all there is to say'
2. Anthropomorphism and the 'Ends of Man' in the Anthropocene: 'My Chimp
Nature'.
3. Telling Nonhuman Stories: 'The Secret Contours of Objects'
4. Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: 'The Siren Song of
Entomology'
5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: 'Their Blood does not Stain Our Hands'
Conclusion
Bibliography