Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels make, re-make or un-make traditional conceptions of the creatures we love, admire, eat, vilify and abuse. Other Animals ’ detailed readings of horses, an animalised human, a donkey, ants, chickens and chimpanzees develop new critica