Animal biography : re-framing animal lives / edited by Andre Krebber, Mieke Roscher.
Krebber, Andre, editor.; Roscher, Mieke, editor.
2018
PN56.A64
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Title Animal biography : re-framing animal lives / edited by Andre Krebber, Mieke Roscher.
ISBN 9783319982885 (electronic book)
3319982885
9783319982878
3319982877
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PN56.A64
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93362
Summary While historiography is dominated by attempts that try to standardize and de-individualize the behavior of animals, history proves to be littered with records of the exceptional lives of unusual animals. This book introduces animal biography as an approach to the re-framing of animals as both objects of knowledge as well as subjects of individual lives. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective and bringing together scholars from, among others, literary, historical and cultural studies, the texts collected in this volume seek to refine animal biography as a research method and framework to studying, capturing, representing and acknowledging animal others as individuals. From Heini Hediger's biting monitor, Hachikō and Murr to celluloid ape Caesar and the mourning of Topsy's gruesome death, the authors discuss how animal biographies are discovered and explored through connections with humans that can be traced in archives, ethological fieldwork and novels, and probe the means of constructing animal biographies from taxidermy to film, literature and social media. Thus, they invite deeper conversations with socio-political and cultural contexts that allow animal biographies to provide narratives that reach beyond individual life stories, while experimenting with particular forms of animal biographies that might trigger animal activism and concerns for animal well-being, spur historical interest and enrich the literary imagination.
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Added Author Krebber, Andre, editor.
Roscher, Mieke, editor.
Series Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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1. Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality, André Krebber and Mieke Roscher
2. Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler, and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology, Matthew Chrulew
3. Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive?, Hilda Kean
4. Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies, Frederike Middelhoff
5. A Dog's Life: The Challenges and Possibilities of Animal Biography, Aaron Skabelund
6. "We Know Them All"
Does it Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison?, Markus Krzoska
7. Animal Life Stories; Or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork, Mira Shah
8. Taxidermy's Literary Biographies, Susan McHugh
9. Caesar
The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity, Daniel Wolf
10. Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog's "Crocodile" at the End of the World, Dominic O'Key
11. The Elephant's I: Looking for Abu'l Abbas, Radhika Subramaniam
12. Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget, Kim Stallwood
13. Online Animal (Auto- )Biographies: What Does it Mean When We "Give Animals a Voice"?

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