TY  - CHAP
A1  - Moss, Maria
T1  - "The skin and fur on your shoulders" : teaching the animal turn in literature
T2  - Multispecies futures : new approaches to teaching human-animal studies / Andreas Hübner, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Maria Moss (eds)
N2  - Taking her cue from Margo de Mello's "Teaching the Animal", Maria Moss employs a hands-on, didactic approach to teaching human-animal studies (THAS), introducing texts that she has used in her seminars in the past - from philosophical background materials and sociological surveys to novels, short stories, and poems. In her article, "'The skin and fur on your shoulders': Teaching the Animal Turn in Literature," Moss uses texts that "look at the animals from inside out," ending with a discussion of SF and chimp fiction. From James Lever's "Me Cheetah" to George Saunders's story "Fox 8", she focuses on animal agency within the narrative form, presenting texts that feature animals as narrators. Once we acknowledge that notions of language, cognition, and thinking about the future are no longer limited to human narrators and that "storying" is no longer specific to humans, Moss writes, interspecies storied imaginings mark one possible alternative to the long history of human dominance and exceptionalism - not just in life, but in literature, too.
KW  - Literaturunterricht
KW  - Tiere <Motiv>
KW  - Anthrozoologie
KW  - Animal Turn
KW  - Human-Animal Studies
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68918
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-689187
SN  - 978-3-95808-402-5
SP  - 149
EP  - 169
PB  - Neofelis Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -