Animal Narratives and Social Agency
Animal Narratives and Social Agency
This introductory chapter discusses the significance of animal narratives in contrast with the stories that depicts human subjects. It asks: how do animal agents appear in literature, and what are their effects? Irish novelist George Moore proposes that social life shared across species can be the measure of literary representation that shifts away from human subjectivity. The chapter describes key creative developments of fiction to explain how some literary and visual narratives are related to the politics and sciences of species.
Keywords: animal narratives, George Moore, human subjectivity, animal agents, fiction
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