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Animality and Children's Literature and Film

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Amy Ratelle

    1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 1-17

  3. Animal Virtues, Values and Rights

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 18-40

  4. Contact Zones, Becoming and the Wild Animal Body

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 41-64

  5. Ethics and Edibility

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 65-89

  6. Science, Species and Subjectivity

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 90-116

  7. Performance and Personhood in Free Willy and Dolphin Tale

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 117-138

  8. Conclusion

    • Amy Ratelle
    Pages 139-143

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 144-171
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About this book

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.

Reviews

“Ratelle’s book is the first comprehensive study of animals and the ways in which their narrative construction can offer revealing insights into human life and society. … A significant achievement of Animality and Children’s Literature and Film is that it sheds much-needed light on a topic that has so far evaded critical attention and will hopefully pave the way for more studies in the future.” (Victoria Flanagan, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 9 (1), July, 2016)

“Ratelle’s work is highly lucid, elegantly written, and that it offers a source of intrigu­ing examples and compassionate analyses and deconstructions of the animal-human divide in literary and cinematic classics … . Amy Ratelle’s valuable study compellingly excavates this historical development, but above all it demonstrates how literature and film for children havebeen and still are central to it.” (Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Journal of Childrens Literature Research, Vol. 38, 2015)


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Amy Ratelle

About the author

Amy Ratelle is currently the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a Co-Investigator at Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive. She has degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA).

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