1st Edition

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan’s Poetry and Prose Towards Interspecies Thriving

By Małgorzata Poks Copyright 2024
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan’s Poetry and Prose is a plea for an urgent redefinition of human-animal relations on the basis of a nonanthropocentric animal ethic embraced by premodern Indigenous communities but depreciated by coloniality. Without decolonial revisions of animal subjectivity and personhood, the animal genocide can never truly stop. It is also a close reading of Linda... Read more

Introduction

 

THE RADIANT LIVES WITH ANIMALS: THE POETRY OF LINDA HOGAN

1970s: Calling Myself Home

1980s: Birth of an Ecofeminist

1990s: Wildness

2000s: Rounding the Human Corners

2010s: "I Want Mercy in This World"

 

RECLAIMING ANIMALITY, REVISIONING HUMANITY: THE NOVELS OF LINDA HOGAN

Mean Spirit: Decolonizing Nonhuman Animals

Solar Storms: Reclaiming Wild, Becoming Human

Of Power and Sacrifice: Rethinking Carnivora, Expanding Sociality

People of The Whale: Transformational Beings, and the Future of Humanity

 

Conclusions: Implications for Interspecies Thriving in the Literary Works of Linda Hogan

Biography

Małgorzata Poks is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She received her PhD in Literary Studies from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is the author of Thomas Merton and Latin America: A Consonance of Voices (Winner of the International Thomas Merton Award) and Kobieta, która czuwa nad światem (2021), a translation of Linda Hogan’s A Woman Who Watches Over the World.