Countering Anthropocentrism - Vegetarian Vampires, Ecology, and Non-Human Subjects

This volume offers an eco-critical and post-humanist deconstruction of ecologies, environmentalisms, trans- and post-humanisms represented in the 21st century vampire narratives. The corpus encompasses the so-called Western narratives (anglo- and francophone), as well as the Eastern European ones (Polish and Russian). The structural analysis of the vampire narratives focuses on the main topoi: the ecological attitudes and statements as expressed by the actors of the stories themselves; the narratives' attitude towards the animals; the vampire and human actors' diet(s); the actors' and the narrative definition and positioning of the nonhuman. The volume follows the topoi's complex entanglements presenting a multidimensional insight into the contemporary stances on the world-realities.

About the author

Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi is a member of Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivities project at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She wrote her PhD thesis on the cultural meanings of the 21st century vampire narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2025
• EAN: 9783847118695
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-1869-5
• No. of pages: 291
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 18 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 543 g
• Illustrations: with 7 figures
• Series: Culture - Environment - Society / Humanities and beyond; Culture - Environment - Society; Culture – Environment – Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies