Read more
Reading Cats and Dogs offers fifteen examples of ecocritical animal studies from around the world. The essays in this volume complicate the concept of "companion animals" by exploring our relationships with stray and feral animals, utilitarian relationships with other species, and the troubling realities of domestication, ownership, and abuse.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Prologue by Kev Reynolds
Introduction by Françoise Besson and Scott Slovic
Section I: Stray and Feral Companions
1.Karla Armbruster, "Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene"
2.Önder Cetin, "When You Love the Stray Animals as Much as Your Own Pets: The Case of Companion Animals in Turkey"
3.Marianne Marroum, "Identity, Love, and Abuse in Laila al-Othman's Cat Stories"
4.Lorraine Kerslake, "Of Mice, Rabbits, and Other Companions in Beatrix Potter's More than Human World"
5.Niroshima Gunasekera, "Walking Through the Animal Kingdom: A Search for the Near and Dear"
6.Qianqian Cheng, "From the Forbidden City to the Locked-down Megalopolis: Reading the Behaviors of Cat Lovers in China"
Section II: The Usefulness of Companion Animals
7.Anna Re, "Memorable Dogs of Italian Literature"
8.Claire Cazejous-Augé, "Cross-species Cooperation: Hunting with Dogs in Contemporary American Nature Writing"
9.Keita Hatooka, "Let the Sleeping Dogs Tell Lies: Companionship and Solitude in Shu
About the author
Françoise Besson is emerita professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, in Toulouse, France Zélia M. Bora is founder of the Commission for Animal Welfare and contributes to the postgraduate program at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil.Zélia M. Bora has a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and serves as general editor of Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica.Marianne Marroum is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.Françoise Besson is emerita professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, in Toulouse, France Zélia M. Bora is founder of the Commission for Animal Welfare and contributes to the postgraduate program at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil.Zélia M. Bora has a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and serves as general editor of Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica.Qianqian Cheng obtained her PhD in English from the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. She has taught English at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Chinese at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.Keita Hatooka is professor of adaptation studies in the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Meiji University.Marianne Marroum is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
