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Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Unlike many recent studies of animals in fiction it does not argue that literary depictions can help readers understand or empathise with nonhuman animals more fully, instead demonstrating that such depictions of interspecies relations can radically destabilize assumptions about the nature of language and narrative Draws on a wide range of theory and criticism, including continental philosophy, anthropology, affect theory, feminist posthumanism, and more Offers new opportunities to see not only the centrality of nonhuman animals to contemporary fiction, but how writing animal lives changes the nature of the text itself

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