Same/Not Same: Nonhuman Animals, Language, and Science in Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Keywords:
American literature, human and animal, attitude towards animals, animal rights, humanism, anthropocentrism, violence, language, scienceAbstract
The article discusses Karen Joy Fowler’s 2013 novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, primarily in the context of the growing demands for nonhuman animal rights/liberation. The general thrust of the novel is in keeping with animal rights activism and the animal studies’ critical examination of the human/animal relations.References
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