Animal Companions in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s More-than-Marxist World

Abstract

Representations of animals in Warner’s work anticipate twenty-first-century materialist feminism. In addressing animal exploitation and cross-species collaboration, Warner revises Marxist formulations of socioeconomic structures that include both human and more-than-human life. For her, animal agency parallels strategies of colonized peoples, as it must be exerted within alien domains.

Posthuman? Animal Corpses, Aeroplanes and Very High Frequencies in the Work of Valentine Ackland and Sylvia Townsend Warner

“…Animal companions are more or less ever-present in the fiction, too. 77 But it is the corpses of dead animals, I will argue, that provoked her to radical reflection.…”