Reading slaughter : abattoir fictions, space, and empathy in late modernity / Sune Borkfelt.
2022
PN56.A64
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Title
Reading slaughter : abattoir fictions, space, and empathy in late modernity / Sune Borkfelt.
Author
Borkfelt, Sune, author.
ISBN
9783030989156 (electronic bk.)
3030989151 (electronic bk.)
9783030989149
3030989143
3030989151 (electronic bk.)
9783030989149
3030989143
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-98915-6 doi
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PN56.A64
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93362
Summary
Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include articles and book chapters on nonhuman otherness, postcolonial animals, the naming of nonhuman animals, and the ethics of animal product marketing. He is also co-author of a critical research-based Danish book on hunting.
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Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities
2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter
3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir
4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban
5. Ruralities and the Abattoir
6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities
7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse
8. Coda.
2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter
3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir
4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban
5. Ruralities and the Abattoir
6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities
7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse
8. Coda.