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Liza B. Bauer: Livestock and Literature. Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species (2024, Palgrave Macmillan Cham)

Liza B. Bauer's (Interim Scientific Manager of the Panel) latest publication Livestock and Literature explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In view of the ecological footprint of industrial animal agriculture, the book seeks insights into how literature may reshape human-animal relationships beyond the page.

  • Liza B. Bauer: Livestock and Literature. Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species (2024, Palgrave Macmillan Cham)
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  • Liza B. Bauer's (Interim Scientific Manager of the Panel) latest publication Livestock and Literature explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In view of the ecological footprint of industrial animal agriculture, the book seeks insights into how literature may reshape human-animal relationships beyond the page.
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Aug 13, 2024 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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...Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species delves into how literary representations of cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans shape our understanding of human-animal relationships. In the face of global warming, pandemics, biodiversity loss, and advances in bioengineering, it is more important than ever to rethink our co-dependent ties to these creatures. Specifically, the book explores how 21st-century science- and speculative fiction (SF) challenges the commodification of these animals while imagining scenarios where they resist, evolve, or live closely with humans in multispecies societies. By examining these narratives, the author reveals how literature may push us to reconsider our views on farmed animals and their place in the world and thus contribute to “deindustrializing” our imagination. 

The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature series. The book will be available as reference in the Planetary Library shortly. 
For book orders, visit https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-58116-8.