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Meatfiction = the treatment of animals in the contemporary American novel /

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Title/Author:	Meatfiction/ by Jamie Redgate.
Reminder of title:	the treatment of animals in the contemporary American novel /
Author:	Redgate, Jamie.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xv, 293 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ecocriticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08373-9
ISBN:	9783032083739

Meatfiction = the treatment of animals in the contemporary American novel /
Redgate, Jamie.

Meatfictionthe treatment of animals in the contemporary American novel /[electronic resource] :by Jamie Redgate. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xv, 293 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in animals and literature,2634-6346. - Palgrave studies in animals and literature..

Chapter 1 : An Introduction to Meatfiction -- Chapter 2 : The King of Corn: God, Man, and Meat in David Foster Wallace's Moral Fiction -- Chapter 3 : Labour Pains : Authorship, Education, and Mammalian Life in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love -- Chapter 4 : Meat is the Medium: Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meat and the Reader's Stomach -- Chapter 5 : The Rendering Operation: Decapitation Theory and the Construction of Meat on the Human Factory Farm -- Chapter 6 : Vegans Do It Better : Cannibalism and the Monstrous Vegan in the Modern American Romance -- Chapter 7 : Conclusion: The Chickens Will Inherit the Earth.

This book highlights the efforts of contemporary writers of "meatfiction" to balance postmodern innovation with a new ethical urgency that the worsening environmental crisis and our industrial treatment of animals begs of us. Beginning with the so-called end of postmodernism and the 'New Sincerity' that was supposed to have emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, Meatfiction retells the story of the contemporary American novel by setting it at the end of a long tradition in American literature that has always kept animals and meat close to its heart, if in the margins. Through new readings that highlight the absent animals in well-known works by Katherine Dunn, Ruth Ozeki, and Rachel Ingalls, as well as readings of new and understudied novels by Deb Olin Unferth and Chelsea G. Summers, this book offers an account of the deepfelt sin and shame that shapes our most disturbed and most romantic of national literatures. Jamie Redgate held a Leverhulme Lectureship in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, from 2024-2025, where he also co-founded the Studies of Meat in the Arts and Culture (StOMAC) reading group. Jamie's criticism and fiction have been published and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

ISBN: 9783032083739

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-08373-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555839
Ecocriticism.

LC Class. No.: PN98.E36

Dewey Class. No.: 809.933553

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