Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore how animals are central to our perception of humanity. Arguing that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns, Sherryl Vint expresses an urgent need to reconsider the humananimal boundary in a world of genetic engineering, factory farming, species extinctions, and increasing evidence of animal intelligence, emotions, and tool use. Mapping the complex terrain of human relations with animals, this book offers an important intervention into the contentious ongoing discussions of the posthuman.
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"'This book challenged my thinking and extended my reading pleasure, and you can't ask for more than that.' Professor Philip Armstrong, Co-director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury 'Animal Alterity is an engaging, intelligent study which is perceptively and accessibly theorised, and refreshingly innovative.' Dr Peter Wright, Edge Hill University"
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Sherryl Vint is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Ontario.
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