Overview
- Interdisciplinary - brings together work from a range of creative areas such as art history and literature
- Features examples from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries
- Explores the roots of the struggle in colonial contact zones, where the stakes include conceptual as much as physical survival
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reimagining Animal Myths: Art, Stories, and Poetry of Bushmen
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Indigenous Wisdoms, Animal Aesthetics, and Contemporary Materialities
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Global Flows of Animal Myths and Allegories
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Creative Interventions in Literary and Art Histories of Indigenous Animal Practices
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Indigenous Traumas and Recoveries across Species Lines
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About this book
This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume’s unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America – historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity – help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan McHugh is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011) as well as Dog (2004). She co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies (2014), and Literary Animals Look, a special issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (2013).
Wendy Woodward is the author of The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives (2008). She co-edited a special issue of Journal of Literary Studies entitled Figuring the Animal in Post-apartheid South Africa (2014) and has published three volumes of poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts
Book Subtitle: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds
Editors: Wendy Woodward, Susan McHugh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56874-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56873-7Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86024-4Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56874-4Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 275
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, African Literature, North American Literature, Performing Arts, Screen Studies