Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures
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Beschreibung
Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency.
Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency.
Children and animals are rare subjects of literary investigation Focus on violence is particularly innovative and challenging Covers a broad range of European Literatures from East and West
Autor*in
Valeska Bopp-Filimonov
Themen in »Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures«
Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Human-Animal Studies Child-Animal Relations Violence and Fiction Literary Studies Literature and Animal Studies children