TY  - CHAP
A1  - Böhm, Alexandra
T1  - Teaching empathy and emotions : J. M. Coetzee's "The lives of animals" and human-animal studies
T2  - Multispecies futures : new approaches to teaching human-animal studies / Andreas Hübner, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Maria Moss (eds)
N2  - In "Teaching Empathy and Emotions: J. M. Coetzee's 'The Lives of Animals' and Human-Animal Studies," Alexandra Böhm focuses on one of the most influential novels in the field of HAS. In her article, she delineates the two main difficulties in teaching Coetzee's text: firstly, the text's protagonist, fierce and fearless Australian author Elizabeth Costello, is often less-than-lovable and offers few grounds for identification; secondly, the text's multilayered structure further problematizes the authorial voice. However, by focusing on Costello's reassessment of emotion and empathy, Böhm convincingly demonstrates that Coetzee's text offers possibilities for understanding the key concepts of HAS, such as animal agency, alterity, and the necessity of assuming a non-anthropocentric perspective. In the narrative, Costello employs empathy in her approach to animals, but is this also true of the metadiegetic level of Coetzee's text? Does the text itself suggest how to teach empathy? Alexandra Böhm demonstrates that it is possible to elicit affective responses to these questions through emotion journals and role-playing.
KW  - Coetzee, J.M.
KW  - Anthrozoologie
KW  - Einfühlung
KW  - Gefühl
KW  - Coetzee, J.M.: The lives of animals
KW  - Human-Animal studies
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68917
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-689172
SN  - 978-3-95808-402-5
SP  - 131
EP  - 147
PB  - Neofelis Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -