Research Catalog

Title

Creature discomfort : fauna-criticism, ethics and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry / by Scott M. DeVries.

Author

DeVries, Scott M., 1973-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, Rodopi, [2016]

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Description

viii, 327 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In 'Creature discomfort: Fauna-criticism, ethics, and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry', Scott M. DeVries uncovers a tradition in Spanish American literature where animal-ethical representations anticipate many of the most pressing concerns from present debates in animal studies. The author documents moments from the corpus that articulate long-standing positions such as a defense of animal rights or advocacy for liberationism, that engage in literary philosophical meditations concerning mind theory and animal sentience, and that anticipate current ideas from Critical Animal Studies including the rejection of hierarchical differentiations between the categories human and nonhuman. 0'Creature discomfort' innovates the notion of?fauna-criticism? as a new literary approach within animal studies; this kind of analysis emphasizes the reframing of literary history to expound animal ethical positions from literary texts, both those that have been considered canonical as well as those that have long been neglected. In this study, DeVries employs fauna-criticism to examine nonhuman sentience, animal interiority, and other ethical issues such as the livestock and pet industries, circuses, zoos, hunting, and species extinction in fictional narrative and poetry from the nineteenth century, modernista, Regional, indigenista, and contemporary periods of Spanish American literature.

Series Statement

Critical Animal Studies ; volume 4

Uniform Title

Critical animal studies ; 4.

Subject

• Spanish American fiction > History and criticism
• Spanish American poetry > History and criticism
• Animals in literature
• Ecology in literature
• Environmentalism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Horse, ape, mosquito: animal perspectives in nineteenth and early twentieth century texts -- The beasts of ecological narrative: intelligent animals in the environmental novels of Luis Sepulveda -- Swan songs: the animal as muse, symbol, and object of Spanish Americanmodernismo -- Caged verse: animals in poetry -- Meat: regional livestock literature -- Harness, harpoon, and cage: horses, whaling, and animal entertainment in regional literature -- Tribal creatures: animals and Indigenista literature -- A dog and hippo show: animals in recent fiction.

Call Number

JFE 16-10237

ISBN

• 9789004316577
• 9004316574
• 9004316590
• 9789004316591

LCCN

2016012085

OCLC

945088556

Author

DeVries, Scott M., 1973- author.

Title

Creature discomfort : fauna-criticism, ethics and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry / by Scott M. DeVries.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, Rodopi, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical Animal Studies ; volume 4

Critical animal studies ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: DeVries, Scott M., 1973- author. Creature discomfort. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004316591 (DLC) 2016025564

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10237