Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction...
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Author: Danielle Sands
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Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy by Sands, Danielle

Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

$89.48

Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

$89.48
Author: Danielle Sands
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

Author: Danielle Sands
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/26/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781474439046

About the Author

Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.


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