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Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Alex Goody (editor), Saskia McCracken (editor)

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Leaves
321
Edition
123
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✦ Synopsis

The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture.

The chapters in Beastly Modernisms present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, Sámi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beastly Modernisms
Part I: Companion Species
1. Metamodernist Beasts, or Flush’s Future: Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals and Sigrid Nunez’s Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
2. Can Flush Count?: Virginia Woolf, Animality and Numbers
3. Canine Companions, Race and Affective Anthropomorphism in Florence Ayscough’s The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog (1926) and Mary Gaunt’s A Broken Journey (1919)
Part II: Beastly Traces
4. Making an Impression Deeply: Authorising Animals in D. H. Lawrence
5. Following the Beast Familiar: Djuna Barnes’s Family Dramas
6. The Taxidermic Imaginary in Modernist Literature
Part III: Animal, Nation, Empire
7. Species Cleansing: The Rhetoric of Rat Control in the People’s Republic of Poland 1945–1956
8. The Barking Dog and Crying Bird in Partition Stories: Beastly Modernism and the Subaltern Animism of Manto, Rakesh and Anand
9. Resistant Reindeers: Human–Animal Relations and Cultural Self-Appropriation in S.mi Art and Literature
Part IV: Intersections, Encounters
10. Animal–Human Entanglements in the Canadian Wild Animal Stories of Charles G. D. Roberts
11. Encountering Female Human Animal Becomings in Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Hybrid Tales
12. Modern Intersections: Reading Anita Scott Coleman’s Animals
Part V: Extinction, War, Proliferation
13. 1940s Avian Noir
14. Unhoming the Pigeon: Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
15. The Modernist Jellyfish
Afterword: The Animal in the Mirror
Notes on Contributors
Index

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