Animal Alterity

Vint, Sherryl

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“…Vint suggests that 'the very concept of the alien is one that expresses a human interest inand struggle withthe reality of living with a different being'. 38 In Hodgson's narrative, there is no consistent resolution to this struggle; humans may flee, but they can never win. The globe is acknowledged to be shared, even if 'they' remain in their place and 'we' in ours.…”

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(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction

Alder

2017

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Early twentieth century weird tales occupy an important place in the development of genre fictions. Among the innovations they contribute are new forms of monsters, diverging from earlier Gothic or mythological traditions, which spring, in part, from a strand of post-Darwinian thought that understood any bodily shape to be possible in adaptation to environmental conditions. This paper explores three stories which, by staging human encounters with animal monsters of radical unknown shapes, suggest new ways in which humans and animals might relate to each other: William Hope Hodgson's The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' (1908), Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Horror of the Heights' (1913) and Will A. Page' 'The Air Serpent' (1911). The encounter between characters and monsters is at root a colonial encounter between humans and the natural world, and often a violent one. By presenting weird animals as monstrous, the stories engage a number of anxieties associated with human-animal kinship and evolutionary superiority. By presenting monsters as strange Others but also as fellow creatures fit for their environments, however, these tales reach towards understanding animals as subjects in their own right with a claim to existing in their own spaces, destabilising the anthropocentric assumptions with which the human characters approach their adventures.

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(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction

Alder

2017

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“…20.As Vint (2010), 12, observes: ‘Animals…“haunt” sf, always there in the shadows behind the alien or the android with whom we fantasise exchange.’ Csicsery-Ronay (2007), 12, claims: ‘Animals are by far the most frequent models for alien forms and behavior.’…”

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“…25.On the intersection of ecological thinking with science fiction, see Vint (2010); Canavan and Robinson (2014); Pak (2016). …”

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Speculative Fiction, Ecocriticism, and the Wanderings of Odysseus

Cooper¹

2019

Ramus

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While it is dangerous to generalize about so vast a field as Homeric scholarship, it is perhaps safe to say that before the 1970s interpretation of the Wanderings of Odysseus was dominated by the larger question of the Odyssey’s moral and theological coherence, particularly as this pertains to the justice of Odysseus’ and his companions’ sufferings. The controversy between Analysts and Unitarians did much to determine how this question was asked and answered, with Analysts viewing moral incoherence as a symptom of multiple authorship and Unitarians striving to demonstrate coherence. First-generation anthropology introduced the idea that incoherence might reflect not (only) different authors, but (also) different stages of cultural development. This development was conceived mainly as an advance from primitive ‘savagery’ to more enlightened ‘humanity’, albeit with a tinge of nostalgia for savagery's more holistic ecological consciousness.

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“…Although the series began before the official beginning of the Troubles in 1969, the influence of navigating the discourses and identities that fed into the conflict can be felt in the series' utopian depiction of what Sherryl Vint would term an ‘ethical multi-species community’ 9. Tom Moylan, Raymond Williams and others have noted the relationship between science fiction and older utopian forms, and White uses the utopian aspects of the form to depict societies organised around conflict avoidance and resolution 10 11 i …”

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The medical science fiction of James White: Inside and Outside Sector General

Howard

2016

Med Humanities

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James White was a Northern Irish science fiction author working in the subgenre of medical science fiction from the mid-1950s to the end of the twentieth century. The aim of this article is to introduce White to scholars working in the medical humanities, pointing to features of interest and critiquing the more excessive utopian impulses of the author. The article covers White's Sector General series, set on a vast intergalactic hospital, as well as the author's standalone fictions.

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Animal Alterity

Cited by 110 publications

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(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction

(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction

Speculative Fiction, Ecocriticism, and the Wanderings of Odysseus

The medical science fiction of James White: Inside and Outside Sector General

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