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Cover: 9783319982878 | Animal Biography | Re-framing Animal Lives | Mieke Roscher (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals. This book introduces animal biography as an approach to the re-framing of animals as both objects of knowledge as well as subjects of individual lives. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective and bringing together scholars from, among others, literary, historical and cultural studies, the texts collected in this volume seek to refine animal biography as a research method and framework to studying, capturing, representing and acknowledging animal others as individuals. From Heini Hediger¿s biting monitor, Hachik¿ and Murr to celluloid ape Caesar and the mourning of Topsy¿s gruesome death, the authors discuss how animal biographies are discovered and explored through connections with humans that can be traced in archives, ethological fieldwork and novels, and probe the means ofconstructing animal biographies from taxidermy to film, literature and social media. Thus, they invite deeper conversations with socio-political and cultural contexts that allow animal biographies to provide narratives that reach beyond individual life stories, while experimenting with particular forms of animal biographies that might trigger animal activism and concerns for animal well-being, spur historical interest and enrich the literary imagination.

Über den Autor

André Krebber is Lecturer in Theory and History of Human-Animal Relations at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Mieke Roscher is Assistant Professor for Social and Cultural History and the History of Human-Animal Relations at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

Establishes animal biography as a critical approach to studying animals and human-animal relationships

Contributes to the interdisciplinary research within the human-animal studies (HAS) field

Draws from historical sources to illustrate the methods for creating animal biographies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality

André Krebber and Mieke Roscher

Explorations

2. Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler, and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology

Matthew Chrulew

3. Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive?

Hilda Kean

4. Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies

Frederike Middelhoff

Reflections

5. A Dog's Life: The Challenges and Promise of Animal Biography

Aaron Skabelund

6. "We Know Them All" - Does it Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison?

Markus Krzoska

7. Animal Life Stories; Or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork

Mira Shah

Constructions

8. Taxidermy's Literary Biographies

Susan McHugh

9. Caesar - The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity

Daniel Wolf

10. Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog's "Crocodile" at the End of the World

Dominic O'Key

Experiments

11. The Elephant's I: Looking for Abu'l Abbas

Radhika Subramaniam

12. Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget

Kim Stallwood

13. Online Animal (Auto-)Biographies: What Does it Mean When We "Give Animals a Voice"?

Margo DeMello

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	284
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Inhalt:	xvi 266 S. 12 s/w Illustr. 266 p. 12 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783319982878
ISBN-10:	3319982877
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-98287-8
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Roscher, Mieke Krebber, André
Herausgeber:	André Krebber/Mieke Roscher
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Maße:	216 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Mieke Roscher (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.11.2018
Gewicht:	0,483 kg

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