Animals in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals by Editor: Krishanu Maiti This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism.