Creatural Frictions: The Trouble with Becoming-Animal

Review of David Herman, Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

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  • Liz Bowen Columbia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9546

Abstract

David Herman, Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 290 pp. $95 hc.

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Author Biography

Liz Bowen, Columbia University

Liz Bowen is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she teaches undergraduate writing and helps coordinate the University Seminar on Disability, Culture, and Society. Her dissertation project traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of formal experimentation in 20th and 21st century American literature. She is also the author of the poetry collections Sugarblood (Metatron Press, 2017) and Compassion Fountain (Hyacinth Girl Press, forthcoming 2018), and reviews poetry for Boston Review.

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Published

2018-02-05

How to Cite

Bowen, Liz. 2018. “Creatural Frictions: The Trouble With Becoming-Animal: Review of David Herman, Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature”. Humanimalia 9 (2):127-32. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9546.

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018)

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Reviews

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