- Description
- xii, 228 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Explores a narrative pattern in which storytellers revisit instances of genocide and extinction not simply to reveal historical erasures of whole populations but also to rearticulate lifeways premised on cross-species interdependence. Focuses on recovering a sense of affective bonds shared across species lines"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
- Uniform Title
- AnthropoScene.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : when species meet on killing fields -- Dying animal gods : metaphysical potentials -- Taxidermy remains : on the vitality of lifeless bodies -- Pacific currents : becoming usefully dead -- Saharan nonexistence : edging near death camps -- Arctic nomadology : Inuit stories of the mountie sled dog massacre -- The birds and the bees, or life after sex -- Conclusion : taking and making love stories.
- ISBN
- 9780271084619
- 0271084618
- 9780271083704
- 0271083700
- LCCN
- 2019001332
- OCLC
- YBP 2019001332
- Author
McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget), author.
- Title
Love in a time of slaughters : human-animal stories against genocide and extinction / Susan McHugh.
- Publisher
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
©2019
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.