Speaking for animals : animal autobiographical writing /: animal autobiographical writing. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Margo DeMello ; illustrations by Jeff Hayes.
• Other Names: DeMello, Margo
• Contents: Introduction -- (mis) representing animal s: the limits and possibilities of representation -- What do we want from talking animals? : reflections on literary representations of animal voices and minds / Karla Armbruster -- Our animals, ourselves : representing animal minds in Timothy and the White Bone / Ryan Hediger -- Investigations of a dog, by a dog : between anthropocentrism and canine-centrism / Naama Harel -- Animals in human traditions -- With dogs and lions as witnesses : speaking animals in the history of Christianity / Laura Hobgood-Oster -- The speaking animal : non-human voices in comics / Lisa Brown -- Who'll let the dogs in? : animals, authorship, and the library catalog / Nancy Babb -- Animal self, human self -- Mistresses as masters : voicing female power through the subject animal in two nineteenth-century animal autobiographies / Monica Flegel -- Catster.com : creating feline identities online / Jennifer L. Schally and Stephen R. Couch -- Identity, community and grief : the role of bunspace in human and rabbit lives / Margo DeMello -- Interspecies communication and connection -- Talking dogs, companion capital, and the limits of bio-political fitness / Merit Anglin -- If we could talk to the animals : on changing the (post) human subject / Kathy Rudy -- Speaking and knowing: accessing animal subjectivity -- The power of testimony : the speaking animal's plea for understanding in a selection of eighteenth-century British poetry / Anne Milne -- "Straight from the horse's mouth" : equine memoirs and autobiographies / Marion Copeland -- First friend, first words : speaking of/to talking dogs / Jill Morstad -- The ethics and value of speaking for animals -- Horse talk : horses and human(e) discourses / Natalie Corinne Hansen -- Speaking for dogs : the role of dog biographies in improving canine welfare in Bangkok, thailand / Nikki Savvides -- The elephant letters : the story of Billy and Kani / G.A. Bradshaw -- Contributors.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), (23 illustrations)
• Subjects: 809/.93362; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Animals in literature; Animals -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136200663; 1136200665
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.