Beastly Modernisms : The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture - Alex Goody

Beastly Modernisms

The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture

By: Alex Goody (Editor), Saskia McCracken (Editor)

Paperback | 11 March 2025

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The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture.
The chapters in Beastly Modernisms present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, S?mi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.

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A major contribution to animal studies as well as modernist studies, Beastly Modernisms gathers international perspectives that strategically redeploy modern profusions of beastliness - whether within, without, or betwixt and between (sometimes human) animals - in ways geared to advance timely feminist, antiracist, and decolonial critiques.--Susan McHugh, University of New England

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