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Zusatztext Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts provides a brilliantly subtle and compelling discussion of how thinking about entities that aren’t animals can change our conceptions of animals by reconfiguring understandings of the human. Informationen zum Autor David P. Rando is a Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University, USA. Klappentext Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals. Vorwort Through readings of texts featuring creatures such as androids, aliens and ghosts, this book explores the boundaries of humanness and helps the reader to see nonhuman animals afresh and reimagining the terms of our relationships with them. Zusammenfassung Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them. Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Android as Device Chapter 1. Nonhuman Hope Chapter 2. The Artificial Gaze Chapter 3. Familiar Aliens Chapter 4. Posthumous Humanity Conclusion: Uniqueness, or, Doing Animal Studies One Alien at a Time Coda: To the Wild Robots of the Future Bibliography ...
