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Animals in Posthumanist Thought: An Introduction

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Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals

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This book brings together well-researched essays by established scholars as well as forward-thinking aspiring researchers to study how literary and non-literary texts highlight ‘animal presence’ and explore non-anthropocentric relationships between human and animals.

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  1. 1.

    See Shapiro, K. (1993). Editor’s introduction to Society and Animals. Society and Animals, 1(1), 1–4. https://brill.com/abstract/journals/soan/1/1/article-p1_1.xml.

  2. 2.

    See Shapiro, K., & DeMello, M. (2010). The state of human-animal studies. Society & Animals, 18(3), 307–318.

  3. 3.

    Anthrozoos—https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfan20.

    Humanimalia—https://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/index.html.

    Journal for Critical Animal Studies—http://journalforcriticalanimalstudies.org/.

  4. 4.

    See Kemmerer, L. (2006). Verbal activism: “anymal”. Society & Animals, 14(1), 9–14. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853006776137186.

  5. 5.

    Shapiro, K., & Copeland, M. (2005). Toward a critical theory of animal issues in fiction. Society & Animals, 13(4), 343–46.

  6. 6.

    Hassan, I. (1977). Prometheus as performer: toward a Posthumanist culture?. The Georgia.

    Review, 31(4),830–850. www.jstor.org/stable/41397536.

  7. 7.

    See the interview here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NN427KBZlI.

  8. 8.

    Wolfe thinks that ‘Systems Theory’ puts emphasis on the differences, as it speaks of the autonomy of a species, differentiation and complexity within a species. According to ‘Systems Theory’, animal species and their systems are not inferior to the human species and its systems.

  9. 9.

    Haraway used the term ‘entanglement’ in her 2008 book to suggest the inseparability of the human and animal worlds.

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Maiti, K. (2021). Animals in Posthumanist Thought: An Introduction. In: Maiti, K. (eds) Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals. Second Language Learning and Teaching(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76159-2_1

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