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Showing how questions of narrative bear on ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds, Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action in a more-than-human world.
List of contents
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Section I. Storytelling and Selfhood beyond the Human
- Chapter 1: Self-Narratives and Nonhuman Selves
- Chapter 2: Boundary Conditions: Identification and Transformation across Species Lines
- Chapter 3: Entangled Selves, Transhuman Families
- Section II. Narrative Engagements with More-than-Human Worlds
- Chapter 4: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives
- Chapter 5: Life Narratives beyond the Human
- Chapter 6: Animal Minds across Discourse Domains
- Chapter 7: Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives
- Coda
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
David Herman has taught at institutions that include North Carolina State University, Purdue University, Ohio State University, and, most recently, Durham University in the UK.
Summary
Showing how questions of narrative bear on ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds, Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action in a more-than-human world.
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In this excellent and original book, David Herman interweaves the study of narrative structures (narratology) with the cross-disciplinary field of animal studies in order to produce a powerful, complex new paradigm for understanding animal narrative. This paradigm empowers narratology and human-animal narrative, across a variety of genres, to join in expanding our view of narratively structured creatural worlds.
