Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogans Poetry and Prose - Towards Interspecies Thriving

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan's Poetry and Prose is a plea for an urgent redefinition of human-animal relations on the basis of nonanthropocentric animal ethic embraced by premodern Indigenous communities but depreciated by coloniality.

List of contents

Introduction
THE RADIANT LIVES WITH ANIMALS: THE POETRY OF LINDA HOGAN
1970s: Calling Myself Home
1980s: Birth of an Ecofeminist
1990s: Wildness
2000s: Rounding the Human Corners
2010s: "I Want Mercy in This World"
RECLAIMING ANIMALITY, REVISIONING HUMANITY: THE NOVELS OF LINDA HOGAN
Mean Spirit: Decolonizing Nonhuman Animals
Solar Storms: Reclaiming Wild, Becoming Human
Of Power and Sacrifice: Rethinking Carnivora, Expanding Sociality
People of The Whale: Transformational Beings, and the Future of Humanity
Conclusions: Implications for Interspecies Thriving in the Literary Works of Linda Hogan

About the author

Mägorzata Poks is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She received her PhD in Literary Studies from Maria Curie-Sk¿odowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is the author of Thomas Merton and Latin America: A Consonance of Voices (Winner of the International Thomas Merton Award) and Kobieta, która czuwa nad ¿wiatem (2021), a translation of Linda Hogan's A Woman Who Watches Over the World.

Summary

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan’s Poetry and Prose is a plea for an urgent redefinition of human-animal relations on the basis of nonanthropocentric animal ethic embraced by premodern Indigenous communities but depreciated by coloniality.

Product details

• Authors: Malgorzata Poks, Małgorzata Poks
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032427805
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242780-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Animals & society, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Animals and society, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets