Decolonial Animal Ethics in Linda Hogan’s Poetry and Prose: Towards Interspecies Thriving (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

By: Małgorzata Poks

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Synopsis: Interspecies cosmopolitanism—understood as an effort to build a pluriversal world in which multiple forms of life can coexist—is all the more urgent in a world of already entangled biosystems, multispecies contact zones, and human/more-than-human interfaces. Critiquing the liberal discourse on animal rights for perpetuating colonial hierarchies, this volume argues that imagining a human-animal cosmopolis should be done in dialogue with traditional tribal cultures, which envision animal persons as agential beings, teachers, and relatives of the humans they have coevolved with. Steeped in North America’s Indigenous worldviews, it focuses on such questions as: who are the animals we share our earthly lives with, what can they teach us about ourselves, how can animals guide us toward more sustainable futures, and what are the conditions of possibility of human-animal thriving? This is also the first book-length study of Linda Hogan’s prose and poetry written from decolonial animal studies perspective.