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Author Vint, Sherryl, 1969-

Title Animal alterity : science fiction and the question of the animal / Sherryl Vint
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010

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Description x, 269 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Series Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 39
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 39
Contents Always-already meat : the human-animal boundary and ethics -- The mirror test : humans, animals and sentience -- The animal responds : language, animals and science fiction -- 'The female is somewhat duller' : gender and animals -- Sapien orientalism : animals, colonialism, science fiction -- Existing for their own reasons : animal aliens -- A rope over an abyss : human as animals -- The modern epimetheus : animals and/as technology
Summary Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about being human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number of critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. --
Professor Philip Armstrong, Co-director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury --
We are living in a complex set of contradictory and confilicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations wiht non-human animals withing a deeper understanding of the functions of the category ̀animal'. --
Ànimal Alterity is an engaging, intelligent study which is perceptively and accessibly theorised, and refreshingly innovative.' Dr Peter Wright, Edge Hill University --Book Jacket
T̀his book challenged my thinking and extended my reading pleasure, and you can't ask for more than that.' --
Bibliography Includes bibliograpical references (pages [245]-256) and index
Subject Animals in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
ISBN 1846312345
9781846312342