Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies): 39 - Softcover

Sherryl Vint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846318157 ISBN 13: 9781846318153

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. We are living in a complex set of contradictory and conflicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations with non-human animals within a deeper understanding of the functions of the category animal.

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Review:

"An intriguing and enlightening book. Nicely produced, well-edited and comprehensive, reflecting a great deal of effort by the author to collect and synthesize the sometimes disparate material ... it is definitely recommended for a university research library."--SFRA Review

"Sherryl Vint has done seriously valuable work in Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal, illustrating how the HAS lens, and by extension other strands of the ecocritical mode, can illuminate texts not normally associated with environmentalism. While her text selection principles could profitably have been clarified, and her engagement with sf readers could have been more detailed, Vint models here just how effective a careful, environmentally minded literary reading can be."--The Goose

"Animal Alterity is an engaging, intelligent study which is perceptively and accessibly theorised, and refreshingly innovative."--Peter Wright, Edge Hill University

Animal Alterity Vint has provided a thorough and nuanced study of other animals in sf, one that cogently demonstrates the potent connections between sf and animal studies. This book should be of great use to any scholar of the fantastic interested in how animals figure in their texts-sf or otherwise. ... Animal Alterity is a very strong work of sf scholarship, and, whatever your interests, is an exemplar of engaged and engaging intellectual labor."--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

About the Author:

Sherryl Vint is Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Science Fiction University of Toronto Press, 2006) and co-editor of the journal of Science Fiction Film and Television published by Liverpool University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846318157
• ISBN 13: 9781846318153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256