Reading Cats and Dogs - Companion Animals in World Literature

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

Karla Armbruster, "Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene"

Önder Cetin, "When You Love the Stray Animals as Much as Your Own Pets: The Case of Companion Animals in Turkey"

Marianne Marroum, "Identity, Love, and Abuse in Laila al-Othman's Cat Stories"

Lorraine Kerslake, "Of Mice, Rabbits, and Other Companions in Beatrix Potter's More than Human World"

Niroshima Gunasekera, "Walking Through the Animal Kingdom: A Search for the Near and Dear"

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

Anna Re, "Memorable Dogs of Italian Literature"

Claire Cazejous-Augé, "Cross-species Cooperation: Hunting with Dogs in Contemporary American Nature Writing"

Keita Hatooka, "Let the Sleeping Dogs Tell Lies: Companionship and Solitude in Shuntar¿ Tanikawa's Dog Poems"

Kenneth Toah Nsah, "Of Dogs, Horses, and Buffalos in Cameroon: Companion Animals in Cameroonian Fiction"

Section III: Problematizing Companion Animals

Chen Hong, "The Plight of Dogs in the Country-City Gap: Reading Chinese Dog Narratives across Genres"

Wendy Woodward, "Cat Killers, Black Diamonds, and a Talking Cat: Feline Companions in Post-Transitional South African Fiction"

Zélia M. Bora, "The Paradoxical World of Animal Representation in the Brazilian Novel As Horas Nuas in Light of Greek Philosophy"

Athane Adrahane, "Canine Initiation into Ecowisdom"

Epilogue by Françoise Besson, Zélia M. Bora, Marianne Marroum, and Scott Slovic
Index

About the author

Edited by Françoise Besson; Zélia M. Bora; Marianne Marroum and Scott Slovic - Contributions by Athane Adrahane; Karla Armbruster; Françoise Besson; Zélia M. Bora; Claire Cazajous-Augé; Önder C¿etin; Chen Hong; Qianqian Cheng; Niroshini Gunasekera; Keita

Product details

• Authors: Zelia M. Marroum Bora, Kev Reynolds
• Assisted by: Françoise Besson (Editor), Zelia M. Bora (Editor), Zélia M. Bora (Editor), Marianne Marroum (Editor), Slovic Scott (Editor), Scott Slovic (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793611062
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-106-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies