"The skin and fur on your shoulders" : teaching the animal turn in literature
- 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.
Author: | Maria MossGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-689187 |
ISBN: | 978-3-95808-402-5 |
Parent Title (English): | Multispecies futures : new approaches to teaching human-animal studies / Andreas Hübner, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Maria Moss (eds) |
Publisher: | Neofelis Verlag |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/07/22 |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/09/01 |
Tag: | Animal Turn; Human-Animal Studies |
GND Keyword: | Literaturunterricht; Tiere <Motiv>; Anthrozoologie |
Page Number: | 21 |
First Page: | 149 |
Last Page: | 169 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 500135142 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Neofelis Verlag | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |