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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Sune Borkfelt

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Description:Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.Table of Contents:1 Introduction: Fleshing Out InvisibilitiesVisibility and Slaughterhouse HistoriesDecoding SlaughterhousesHeterotopias and the Invisibility of Violence and DeathLiterature and the Invisible SlaughterhouseScope and Outline of Reading SlaughterWorks Cited2 Literary Narratives and the Empathics of SlaughterDelimitations and DefinitionsLiterary Empathy and Animals: Exclusions and MisconceptionsEmpathy and Anonymous AnimalsEmpathy and Nonhuman IndividualitiesEmotion, Context, and Distance to SlaughterEmpathy, Vulnerability, Sentimentalism, and CareWorks Cited3 Anthropomorphism and the AbattoirSlaughter and the Anthropomorphic AnimalNarrating Bovine Mythology in James Agee’s ‘A Mother’s Tale’Absurdity and Anthropomorphism: Astley’s The End of My TetherSlaughter, Anthropomorphism, EmpathyWorks Cited4 Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the UrbanConcealment and Deindividualization: Egolf’s Lord of the BarnyardSlaughter and the Working BeastThe Proud Slaughterer’s Sense of Place: Hind’s The Dear Green PlaceHumans and Animals: Parallel Disappearances in the UrbanWorks Cited5 Ruralities and the AbattoirNostalgia, Rurality, and ‘A Question of Place’Bovines and Rural/Urban Contrasts: Sterchi’s The CowRurality, Care Ethics, and EmpathyWorks Cited6 Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) IdentitiesShades of Whiteness, Absence of BlacknessViolence in the Workplace: Deviance and Marginalization(En)Gendered SlaughterSlaughter, Identities, AnimalsWorks Cited7 Dark Spaces: The Horrific SlaughterhouseVulnerable Animal HorrorsBeing Meat: Others Eating HumansCannibalism and the AbattoirWorks Cited8 CodaWorks CitedIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). To get started finding Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.Table of Contents:1 Introduction: Fleshing Out InvisibilitiesVisibility and Slaughterhouse HistoriesDecoding SlaughterhousesHeterotopias and the Invisibility of Violence and DeathLiterature and the Invisible SlaughterhouseScope and Outline of Reading SlaughterWorks Cited2 Literary Narratives and the Empathics of SlaughterDelimitations and DefinitionsLiterary Empathy and Animals: Exclusions and MisconceptionsEmpathy and Anonymous AnimalsEmpathy and Nonhuman IndividualitiesEmotion, Context, and Distance to SlaughterEmpathy, Vulnerability, Sentimentalism, and CareWorks Cited3 Anthropomorphism and the AbattoirSlaughter and the Anthropomorphic AnimalNarrating Bovine Mythology in James Agee’s ‘A Mother’s Tale’Absurdity and Anthropomorphism: Astley’s The End of My TetherSlaughter, Anthropomorphism, EmpathyWorks Cited4 Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the UrbanConcealment and Deindividualization: Egolf’s Lord of the BarnyardSlaughter and the Working BeastThe Proud Slaughterer’s Sense of Place: Hind’s The Dear Green PlaceHumans and Animals: Parallel Disappearances in the UrbanWorks Cited5 Ruralities and the AbattoirNostalgia, Rurality, and ‘A Question of Place’Bovines and Rural/Urban Contrasts: Sterchi’s The CowRurality, Care Ethics, and EmpathyWorks Cited6 Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) IdentitiesShades of Whiteness, Absence of BlacknessViolence in the Workplace: Deviance and Marginalization(En)Gendered SlaughterSlaughter, Identities, AnimalsWorks Cited7 Dark Spaces: The Horrific SlaughterhouseVulnerable Animal HorrorsBeing Meat: Others Eating HumansCannibalism and the AbattoirWorks Cited8 CodaWorks CitedIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). To get started finding Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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