Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal
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Animal Alterityuses readings of science fiction texts to explore how animals are central to our perception of humanity. Arguing that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns, Sherryl Vint expresses an urgent need to reconsider the humananimal boundary in a world of genetic engineering, factory farming, species extinctions, and increasing evidence of animal intelligence, emotions, and tool use. Mapping the complex terrain of human relations with animals, this book offers an important intervention into the contentious ongoing discussions of the posthuman.
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