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Presents a groundbreaking examination of the interactions between humans and 'non-human animals' - both real and imagined - in New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media and everyday life. This is an engaging, original and scholarly rigorous book of cultural criticism and a thoughtful addition to New Zealand literature.
About the author
Dr. Annie Potts and Dr. Philip Armstrong are associate professors in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury and co-directors of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Annie Potts' most recent book is Chicken (Reaktion, 2012), a natural and cultural history of Gallus gallus domesticus; Philip Armstrong's is What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity (Routledge, 2008), a consideration of animals in the novel in English from the eighteenth century onwards. Dr. Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland: her most recent book is Maori Architecture (Penguin, 2009).
Summary
Presents a groundbreaking examination of the interactions between humans and `non-human animals' - both real and imagined - in New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media and everyday life. This is an engaging, original and scholarly rigorous book of cultural criticism and a thoughtful addition to New Zealand literature.
