Böcker av Susan McHugh

To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical theory.

Explores a narrative pattern in which storytellers revisit instances of genocide and extinction not simply to reveal historical erasures of whole populations but also to rearticulate lifeways premised on cross-species interdependence. Focuses on recovering a sense of affective bonds shared across species lines.

How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media-and why it matters.

The story of the canine has since the earliest times been fundamentally entwined with that of humanity itself, and this ancient and fascinating story is told in Susan McHugh's Dog.