Rethinking human and nonhuman animal relations in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (2003).

Critical animal studies;Literature and philosophy;Literature and science;J. M. Coetzee;Animal rights;Posthumanism

Rodrigo Martini Paula

University:University of Louisville

Department:English

关键词: Critical animal studies;    Literature and philosophy;    Literature and science;    J. M. Coetzee;    Animal rights;    Posthumanism;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

For the past four decades, scholarship on the relationship between human andnonhuman animals has been growing inside the academy and sprouting ontological andepistemological concerns about the status of the Humanities as an institution. Between1997 and 2003, South-African author and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee createdElizabeth Costello, an Australian writer that delivers lectures at certain universities andcauses controversy when addressing the nature of animal rights movements. This workaims at analyzing the situations in which Coetzee uses Costello to speak about the crueltyto nonhuman animals. What I argue is that in entering the conversation through the use ofa fictional character, Coetzee puts the discourse of both philosophy an science inperspective and forces the reader to rethink the politics involved in the ways disciplinesspeak of animals.