Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Edited by Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad

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Paper, 240 pages, 1 table
ISBN: 978-0-231-15283-9
$27.50 / £19.00

December, 2011
Cloth, 240 pages, 1 table
ISBN: 978-0-231-15282-2
$84.50 / £58.50

"To date, there has been little discussion about the possible connection between animal studies and advocacy on behalf of the welfare and well-being of animals. This volume takes as its aim the discussion of such possible connections—an important investigation, as the relationship among politics, policy, and advocacy often remains implicit or in the background in much recent work on animal studies. By foregrounding this inquiry, Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad do a great service to readers who might be attracted to this literature’s promise or usefulness for various kinds of activism. Likewise, it allows authors and academics interested in animal studies to give further consideration to the possible political implications of work done in this field." — Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies

About the Author

Marianne DeKoven is professor of English at Rutgers University and a recipient of both Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Her books include Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern, which won the Perkins Award from the Society of Narrative Literature; Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism; and A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experimental Writing. She is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Stein’s Three Lives.

Michael Lundblad is assistant professor of English and director of animality studies at Colorado State University. His research focuses on twentieth-century American literature and culture, cultural studies, ecocriticism, and animal and animality studies. His work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, American Quarterly, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

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