Animality and Children's Literature and Film [Hardcover]

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end.Introduction 1. Animal Virtues, Values and Rights 2. Contact Zones, Becoming, and the Wild Animal Body 3. Ethics and Edibility 4. Science, Species and Subjectivity 5. Performance and Personhood in Free Willy and Dolphin Tale Conclusion End Notes Works Cited IndexRatelles book is the first comprehensive study of animals and the ways in which their narrative construction can offer revealing insights into human life and society. & A significant achievement of Animality and Childrens Literature and Film is that it sheds much-needed light on a topic that has so far evaded critical attention and will hopefully pave the way for more studies in the future. (Victoria Flanagan, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 9 (1), July, 2016)

Amy Ratelle is currently the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a Co-Investigator at Ryerson University's Children's Literature Archive. She has degrees in Film Studies from Ryerson University (BFA), and Carleton University (MA).